Why Is John McCain So Hung Up on Gays? He's Not a Closet Case Like Lindsey Graham

UPDATED: Pam Spaulding had this great assessment of Graham's involvement on Facebook: OK. My "no news" day had to be interrupted by this hilarious foray into DADT by the Palmetto Queen. Does he really want to be the face of DADT?

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I am truly beginning to ask myself WTF is up with John McCain - a/k/a John McSenile on this blog - and his hysteria over the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Typically only self-loathing closet cases are this hung up on DADT repeal and/or gay rights in general. I don't believe that McSenile is a closet case (unlike Lindsey Graham as noted below), but something bizarre seems to be going on. One friend posited that while McCain was a POW in North Vietnam, perhaps he was sodomized as part of the torture routine and hence his hysterical and irrational behavior in regard to DADT. Obviously, if American POW's were sodomized by the North Vietnamese, it's not something they'd talk about. A former friend from my straight world days was a POW for seven years - some of that period with McSenile - and he NEVER, EVER spoke of what was specifically done to them, so who knows. Yes, it's pure speculation, but something weird is going on with McSenile over and above the fact that he's losing it in general. The Washington Post has coverage of his continued bizarre and hysterical reactions to the Pentagon study that seems posed to prove that McSenile is creating supposed problems where there are none with 70% of the military. Here are some highlights:
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Sen. John McCain says the effort to repeal the military's ban on openly gay service members doesn't reflect a problem in the military. Rather, he sees it as an effort to fulfill a political promise that was made by an "inexperienced" candidate for president.
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The Republican senator from Arizona says it's wrong to assert that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy is damaging to the military. McCain's views stands in opposition to those of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen. They support repealing the ban.
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If McCain doesn't want people beginning to wonder whether or not he was some North Vietnamese guard's bitch, he needs to get a grip and accept that society and the servicemembers are changing and that his anti-gay hysteria is bound for the scrape heap of history.

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Lindsey Graham, of course, is a different matter. Rumors are rampant that he's a closet case and follows an Ed Schrock approarch in the hope it'll throw people off. Andrew Sullivan notes as follows on Graham's obscene opposition to DADT repeal:
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Lindsey Graham's opposition to repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell is not very surprising. Not asking and not telling about sexual orientation is, after all, as central pillar of his own public identity. . . .
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Notice also that his criterion for such a change is a "groundswell" in the military. But the civilian branch controls the military and decides its policies - not the other way around. The House of Representatives, the commander-in-chief, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the defense secretary and a hefty majority of Americans in most polls all want the change. Who does Graham think he is to dismiss all of this . . . ?