MORE ON McCAIN'S TEMPER

I was reading Bob Herbert's op-ed about McCain and he cited GOP Sen. Pete Domenici is another McCain colleague who doesn't think McCain has the temperment to be President. That makes 3 of McCain's GOP Senate colleagues who have warned us about McCain.

Senator Hothead
In The Cloakroom, John Mccain Won't Suffer Fools And Lets Them Know It. How He Plays By The Washington Rules--And How He Doesn't.
By Evan Thomas NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Feb 21, 2000

...at a GOP meeting last fall, McCain erupted out of the blue at the respected Budget Committee chairman, Pete Domenici, saying, "Only an a--hole would put together a budget like this." Offended, Domenici stood up and gave a dignified, restrained speech about how in all his years in the Senate, through many heated debates, no one had ever called him that. Another senator might have taken the moment to check his temper. But McCain went on: "I wouldn't call you an a--hole unless you really were an a--hole." The Republican senator witnessing the scene had considered supporting McCain for president, but changed his mind. "I decided," the senator told NEWSWEEK, "I didn't want this guy anywhere near a trigger."