Strom Thurmond had more of his facilities when he was over 100 than McCain has had in at least the last two decades. Plus, he had the sense to retire when he figured out he was losing it.
The media tried to make great hay over his affair with a black woman who worked for his family. A child was borne from that dalliance, IIRC. But I never did get to see where the great condemnation of him was in the media onslaught of all this was. It dwindled off. I guess that they didn’t want to go that far back into Kleagle Byrd’s background as fair play.