McCain's brother lets loose on the McCain campaign. Talk about drama.

Earlier this week, Bill Kristol smacked the McCain campaign. Tucker Bounds attacked Kristol, which resulted in Kristol fighting back. It was a big intra-GOP cat fight.

Get ready for another round of intra-GOP battles. This time, it's family. How long before Tucker Bounds gets on t.v. to attack the latest GOPer to let loose on the McCain campaign? It might get a little dicey, because the latest McCain campaign basher is McCain's brother, Joe:

In a new shot across the bow of Arizona Sen. John McCain's lagging campaign, the Republican candidate's younger brother is blasting the campaign's top management and desperately pleading for a change of course.

Joe McCain, in an e-mail sent late Monday night, called on top campaign aides to allow more press access to those who know the presidential nominee best. He said loosening the tight message control was needed because it had become "counter-productive" and was "causing gangrene."

Reflecting apparent unhappiness with the way his brother is being portrayed, Joe McCain also said the campaign needs to make new "ads that show John not as crank and curmudgeon but as a great leader for his time."

"Let John McCain be John McCain," he wrote, criticizing unnamed campaign managers for slamming the door shut to reporters eager to interview those who know the candidate best.

Where to begin? First, McCain is a crank and curmudgeon. He's got a nasty temper, too. The problem is that the campaign is letting John McCain be John McCain, and America doesn't like what it sees. This entire campaign is consistent with McCain's erratic, and rather nasty, personality.

Second, Joe McCain's biggest point is that the press loved John McCain and John McCain loved them. He wants to get them all back together having barbeques and donuts again:

In his email, Joe McCain said the decision to clamp down on press contact with intimates of the Arizona senator is "causing gangrene. It has gradually bled away all the good will that this great man had from the press, for he alone among politicians would talk to them openly, without finesse, without guile."

Reporters, he pointed out, once returned the affection "regardless of their political lean ... they loved him nonetheless."

It was love. True love. And this is the first time in years, if not ever, that the media has reported on McCain in an objective manner. And big surprise, it isn't pretty.

Joe McCain does have a point: The McCain campaign is a mess. But, that has as much to do with John McCain as anyone. If McCain can't run his own campaign, how can we ever trust him with our country?

So when does Tucker show up on t.v. attacking Joe McCain?