Don't know, do you, that when captured, he told the Viet Cong who his father and grandfather was...against regulations? That he would have washed out, because he was such a lousy pilot, but his father pulled stings and all the rest of it?
McLame was a bully in HS who only got into the Naval Academy because of his daddy and grandaddy who were admirals. He would have flunked out of the academy (he was near the bottom in grades) except for same. He was a loser in pilot training and would have been let go except for...you know, dad and gramps and all that. He managed to get shot down soon after deploying. When he got home from the Hanoi Hilton, he dumped his wife of many years who had patiently waited for his release so he could marry the rich daughter of an Arizona beer baron with shady associations. With his rich wife's new money, he managed to get elected to Congress. Then there was the Keating boys...McLame was doing the dirty business, but the good Senator and his pals managed to get that swept under the rung by their good legal counsel (I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out the name of the legal mouthpiece who swept the savings and loan scandal out of sight). Then McLame began his egotistical march to the White House. With the help of the bigot, Warren Rudman, he tried to trash GWB. Finally, the truth caught up with McLame and he was toast as a presidential candiate. His big ego has never forgiven Bush, and he continues to bully his way around the Senate...the darling of the left-wing press.