“While I respect his service,...”
Really? Explain please.
Maybe you can tell us why he never came clean about his role in the Forrestal fire. Or why Vietnam vets refer to him as ‘Songbird’.
What is it exactly that you respect of John McCain?
Even Nancy Davis Reagan didn’t seem to have much use for him.
Re his service:
I’ve heard he was a crappy pilot, got himself captured due to incompetence, and may have caused the Forrestal fire. Maybe it’s true.
We also know that he abandoned his first wife who was faithful to him while he was in captivity in Vietnam for years, after he returned to find her aging and sick. He turned her in for a younger, rich lady who was the heiress to some fortune, I think in beer distribution.
Nevertheless, I’ve also heard that, since he was a famous Admiral’s son, he had the opportunity to be exchanged, but refused it. What seems indisputable is that he did endure a substantial amount of mistreatment, mistreatment that would have driven many men completely insane (and may likely have unbalance him, as well). Since he did that, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in that matter.
As a politician, he sucks.
You can’t expect him to talk a lot about the Forrestal Fire when he was the first man evacuated from the ship while she was still burning ( hitched himself a ride off the ship with the first reporter sent to the scene) to what he called some “ much needed R&R “ in Saigon