John McCain is an enigma.

On the one hand he was right about Iraq, on the other, he was wrong about campaign finance reform and immigration.

I've always thought I would like the guy, he's self-deprecating and witty on television and there simply is no doubt that he is a patriot of the first order. But there is the other John McCain--the one that you don't see in front of the cameras, the one whose 2000 campaign George Will characterizes as a protracted snarl.

The John McCain who once joked that Chelsea Clinton was as ugly as she was because Janet Reno was her father.

Surely the anger that characterized McCain as a young, impetus man of sixty-four has dissipated in someone now in his seventies?

Not so much.

After all, it was only about six months ago that he lashed-out at fellow Republican John Cornyn in an expletive-laced diatribe on the Senate floor.

The problem with John McCain as president is that you don't know which one will be showing up.

H/T Ace of Spades HQ

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