by DHinMI [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Yesterday the Washington Post ran a long, detailed and damning article about John McCain and his notorious temper.  The Post's own polling shows that many voters, including almost half of independents, believe that McCain's temperament would hurt his effectiveness.

McCain's longtime aide and co-author Mark Salter wrote a long email to the National Journal's Ramesh Ponnuru after even Ponnuru wrote in the conservative magazine that the article might be a problem for even conservative McCain supporters.  Salter did a couple interesting things in his email.  He tried to confuse readers by changing the subject:

... I personally know 20 or 25 Senators with much worse tempers. He argues, sometimes heatedly, with his peers, but he doesn't hold grudges or pick on people subordinate to him. If you want to tell what members of Congress have ungovernable tempers, you need only look at how rapidly their staffs turnover. As a twenty-year veteran Hill staffer, I can assure you that is the best indicator of which members have bad tempers. McCain's staff serve tenures well beyond the norm, because they are treated exceedingly well by him.

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