So John McCain was on Hardball today with everyone's favorite bloviator, Tweety Bird Matthews.

Here are the questions I would have asked:

Why don't you know the difference between the Shia and the Sunnis in Iraq? Once might be a mistake, but twice is a trend and you've mistaken the two groups several times over the last few weeks alone.

You've said you detest war. This seems to be at odds with your eagerness to "bomb bomb bomb Iran"? Explain that please.

How do Bush's tax cuts go from "offending your conscience" to something you enthusiastically support and want to make permanent?

You said you want to run a "respectable" campaign. So why does your campaign seek out the likes of Bill Cunningham and John Hagee?

Do you think its a good policy, in a time of war, to be expelling Arabic translators from the military when those very same translators are vital to our intelligence capabilities, simply because they're gay? Doesn't that policy put our national security at risk?

Why dont you think the assasinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were "meaningful" news?

You voted against the 1990 Civil Rights Act. Why do you put the "rights of the unborn" ahead of the rights of actual living, breathing human beings?

Your healthcare "plan" doesn't allow for preconditions. Seeing as how this would disqualify cancer patients (and many many others) why dont you think cancer patients like yourself deserve health care? Not all cancer patients are married to uber-rich heiresses, after all.

Instead, he got tough questions like: "Is Obama an elitist"?  "why are so many young people excited by the words of Barack Obama?" and "Are you a typical white person"? "Do you think you'll be a "great republican president"?

Hardball indeed.

Feel free to add your own questions. Maybe i'll email them to chris matthews for the next time he has on John McCain.