How do you spend a quarter century in Washington without becomming an insider?

TPM riffs on Joe Klein.

Republican insiders tell me that McCain has a fragile temper and that in particular he cannot stand any suggestion that he has become corrupted by Washington politics himself.

Democrats should make more of this fracture line. McCain's campaign to clean up Washington started when he lost the 2000 primaries to George W. Bush and ended when he decided to run for President again.

McCain is the type of Republican that caused George W. Bush to derail his presidency. McCain was for an invasion of Iraq on September 12th.