John McCain made what you can consider an inappropriate joke during an interview with Las Vegas Sun reporter Jon Ralston:

(On why he didn't choose Gov. Jim Gibbons to chair his Nevada campaign?)

I appreciate his support. As you know, the lieutenant governor is our chairman.

(Why snub the governor?)

I didn’t mean to snub him,. I've known the lieutenant governor for 15 years and we've been good friends….I didn't intend to snub him. There are other states where the governor is not the chairman.

(Maybe it's the governor's approval rating and you are running from him like you are from the president?)

(Chuckling) And I stopped beating my wife just a couple of weeks ago….

Where to begin. First of all, as Jake Tapper points out, you might not want to be making any kind of jokes about women and Governor Gibbons, who was accused of trying to choke one in a parking lot, has been quite prodigious in the department on cheating on his wife (who he is now divorcing--more family values for all!).

But then there is Senator McCain. Here is what we do know. He called his wife a c*nt in public according to some book buy some writer. He left his first wife for his current one after she was disfigured in a car accident. And he has an explosive temper.

So all in all, these is probably not the kind of waters you want to wade into, Mr. McCain.