I’ve cut down on my afternoon MSNBC watching lately. I feel like I’ve matured and grown out of that faze of my life. This means I don’t have Chris Matthews sitting on in the background quite as often, but the other day I somehow ended up at my old haunt and who should I see but John McCain sitting next to what I thought was his wife but it was actually his mother. She had a firm look on her face throughout the entire segment and put me in mind of an aristocratic old fashioned woman straight out of the Victorian era, right down to her dress. Matthews took the time to ask her a few questions, in particular one about her feelings on Mitt Romney and his religion. Roberta McCain took a swipe at his religion and then blamed Mormons for the scandals in Salt Lake City. John McCain immediately stepped in and said those weren’t his views, to which Roberta McCain replied that they were her views and she was answering the question she was asked. John had this look on his face the rest of the interview like he knew he never should have brought this crazy woman along with him today and it was going to be all over the news tomorrow, which it was. CNN was talking about it Saturday and it’s been all over the net since this weekend.
McCain tried to dig himself out of the hole his mom buried him in at the end, doing some spin. Chris Matthews tried to help and then ended the interview before Roberta McCain could open her mouth again and you could tell she was itching to. During McCain’s final words she went so far as to let out a deep sigh that a deaf person could’ve heard. I half expected him to snap and start strangling her, she was that bad.
