Would America Vote For A Crazy Man?

A lot emphasis has been put on the question: would America vote for a black man. Or, would America vote for a woman? But an equally valid question, not often posed, is:

Would America vote for a crazy man?

Make no mistake, John McCain is a little crazy. I just saw a BBC news clip of him talking to supporters and, I swear this is verbatim, he vowed to go to the "gates of hell" to find Osama Bin Laden. And you know what? I totally believed him. He was shaking a little bit, clutching a pen in one hand, his old leathery face suggesting a reserve of anger and brute power. I got this picture of Bin Laden wandering by himself towards hell, trying to sneak in, as if it were an after hours club and McCain storming up wearing an old school 1980s-style US Army uniform (like Richard Crenna in Rambo) and grabbing him by the hair, dragging him back to the good ole USA, tossing him into a jail cell and then, by god, treating him decent - so long as he was locked up.

See...I happen to like the subtle craziness in McCain. His type of crazy is to maybe punch the Speaker of the House in the face if he/she was being an idiot...not the launch thermonuclear weapons on the entire Arab world, Ariel Sharon-type of craziness. His kind of crazy is actually kind of useful in foreign relations, politics, and I imagine, surviving a North Vietnamese prison camp. It probably wouldn't be too good for being a Hollywood assistant, running a day care center, or being a brain surgeon.

In any case, it's a good sign of the times when our leading candidates our a women, a black man, and an old crazy bastard.