I know people who worked with him. That is where I get it.
Many of them left positions to get away from him. In some instances they found that he was calling potential employers telling them not to hire people.
He had a bad temper and was seen by several verbally abusing his wife (called her a c**t once in front of people).
That isn't gossip. That is first hand accounts.
Arizona has very little of a good conservative bench and much of it is due to him.
That, again, according to many who worked with and around him.
His first wife was a model. While he was a way, she was in a terrible car accident. When he got back, he dumped her.
The Reagans took her in and it was very clear that Nancy Reagan didn't have much regard for John.
While he was STILL married he was courting Cindy.
Those are facts.
John McCain eldest daughter Sidney and first wife Carol get candid in John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls, an upcoming HBO documentary
people.com
According to the
Washington Post,
John and Cindy obtained a marriage license in Arizona in early March 1980, four weeks before his divorce from Carol was final. They married six weeks later, on May 17.
In one of her few public comments about the marriage, Carol tells the filmmakers that her then-husband’s introduction to Cindy “was about the time our marriage was falling apart.”
“He was looking for a way to be young again, and that was the end of that,” she also says. “I didn’t know anything about it, I had no idea what was going on, I was pretty much blindsided and it broke my heart.”
en.wikipedia.org
Speaking of his first wife:
Her ex-husband (John McCain) would later state that he felt the demise of his marriage was due to his "selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine."
[31] Regarding her divorce, McCain said, "The breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else."
[31] John McCain's biographer
Robert Timberg wrote, however, "Vietnam did play a part, perhaps not the major part, but more than a walk-on."
[36] Ross Perot gave his own assessment of the McCain divorce: "After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol McCain] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy McCain] and the rest is history."
[23] McCain's three children were initially upset with their father about the divorce, but later reconciled with him.
[21]
Soooooo...................
This isn't judgmental gossip.
This is the way it happened...by their own words.
You can see Ross Perot didn't have a lot of good to say about him.
The Trump Party appears shaky in Az as they proved to be in 2020. I don't think that the GOP in Az are going to jump on the 
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