John McCain tweets racist remarks about Iran's President Ahmadinejad. Not even remotely surprised.

So a little less than a week ago we received word that Iran had sent perhaps the most frightened looking monkey ever into space.

Now there is some controversy as to whether or not this even happened, but let's put that aside for now. More importantly for the purposes of this post is that even more recently Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said the following:

"I'm ready to be the first Iranian to sacrifice myself for our country's scientists."

Now of course that statement is rife with opportunities for ridicule, especially considering the frightened look on that monkey's face. However John McCain eschewed any good natured ribbing or sarcastic bon mots, and instead decided that racism was the way to go.

So he tweeted the following:

So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't he just there last week? "Iran launches monkey into space" news.yahoo.com/iran-launches-…
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) February 4, 2013

When Twitter went crazy in response, John McCain, always such a reasonable fellow, doubled down:

Re: Iran space tweet - lighten up folks, can't everyone take a joke?
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) February 4, 2013

Yeah nothing says racist old coot like comparing a Middle Eastern man with brown skin, to a monkey and then lecturing your detractors to "lighten up."

You know I think perhaps now we know why John McCain never had any official response to this supporters representation of candidate Obama during the 2008 presidential race.

 Yep it certainly makes more sense now. and it also perhaps helps to explain McCain's absolute disdain for this President and the constant challenging of his abilities to do the job.

However as truly disgusting as those are, they cannot hold a candle to yesterday's tweets from former South Carolina GOP executive director Todd Kincannon:

 Gee WHY do we think the Republican party is full of racist assholes again? Oh, that's right because we are paying attention to them.