John McCrazy

More proof that McCain is too mentally unstable to be president:

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., told a Mississippi newspaper that he saw McCain, during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., grab an Ortega associate by his shirt collar and lift him out of his chair....

"McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerrilla group here at this end of the table and I don't know what attracted my attention," Cochran said in an interview with The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. "But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever ...

"I don't know what he was telling him but I thought, 'Good grief, everybody around here has got guns and we were there on a diplomatic mission.' I don't know what had happened to provoke John, but he obviously got mad at the guy ... and he just reached over there and snatched ... him."

McCain is denying this, of course. It doesn't look very presidential if you are roughing up people while on diplomatic missions. But why would a fellow Republican senator make up such a damaging story?

I should mention that McCain is known to have scuffled with a fellow Republican, Sen. Strom Thurmond, in 1995. Thurmond was in his 90s at the time. So random acts of violence in professional settings are not out of character by any means.