We got the following totally-unverified tip yesterday from a Wonkette operative:

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Overheard at Tortilla Coast:

Male with really bad curly hair kinda like that 70s guy from American Idol: "I met this intern from McCain's office, she takes sleeping pills every night"

Ditzy Girl: "Really? Wow...."

Bad hair guy: "Yeah I mean she's a red head so she's pale anyways but this is worse!"

At first we didn't think much of it, because even though we like the idea of the MAVERICK senator's interns not being able to sleep at night, our tipster kinda lost us with the punchline. But then we read Newsmax's most recent attack piecetribute to McCain, with its hilariously self-answering headline, and we wondered if maybe everybody within a five-mile radius of the gentleman from Arizona mightn't need to hit the ol' Ambien. The vulgar parts, including a surprising incident in which McCain inspects a colleague's ass, are after the jump.

John McCain doesn't play well with others:

"I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues," said former Senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican who served with McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on Republican policy committees. "He would disagree about something and then explode. It was incidents of irrational behavior. We've all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I've never seen anyone act like that."

McCain needs to have his mouth washed out with soap:

"McCain used the f-word," the former senator said. "McCain called the guy a 'sh--head.' The senator demanded an apology. McCain stood up and said, 'I apologize, but you're still a sh--head.' That was in front of 40 to 50 Republican senators. That sort of thing happened frequently."

"People who disagree with him get the f--- you," said former Rep. John LeBoutillier, a New York Republican who had an encounter with McCain when he was on a POW task force in the House. After LeBoutillier had openly tape recorded comments at a conference, McCain got the idea that LeBoutillier was secretly tape recording him.

And last but not least, John McCain wants to inspect your underwear:

"Are you wired up?" LeBoutillier quoted McCain as asking. "Of course not," LeBoutillier said.

"Prove it," McCain said.

LeBoutillier said he lowered his pants, apparently satisfying McCain that he was not taping him.

McCain's Out-of-Control Anger: Does He Have the Temperament to Be President? [NewsMax]