Finally, McCain was also a lousy carrier jock!!!
Resp’y, Captain Pope
Possibly it's time to revive aspects about McCain's military career that I vowed to put in the deep freeze during the McCain/Palin campaign.
McCain was widely known as "Ace McCain" among his fellow Navy fliers, because he managed to crash five of his own planes. Well, maybe one or two of them weren't his fault, but he was unlucky as well as reckless.
But McCain's worst act was to use his position as chair of the Senate POW-MIA committee to abandon his fellow POW-MIAs for political and monetary advantage. He provided cover for that, and for the recognition of North Vietnam and establishment of trade relations without demanding any accounting of what happened to them. Some were shipped to China and Russia. Some may still have been alive at the time. But McCain abandoned them.