Exactly. McCain is a loathsome piece of dung but everybody who has had the crap kicked out of them under pressure and NOT caved please come to the front of the line.
Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton and Perot’s VP John Stockdale come to mind...but that’s a short (dead) list.
But many brave men didn’t cave. I would not have been one of the brave ones, I’m afraid.
My dad was a WW2 POW, thankfully in Germany. That being said, McCain did get the crap beaten out of him many, many times. Maybe this was after a brutal beating and he was just trying to survive. My dad wasn’t tortured in the German POW camp, I asked him. But the Japanese camps were a very different story. Rent The Great Raid to see what the Asian WW2 camps were like. If McCain does win the Primary, I will vote for him for Senate.
Is Jeremiah Denton the one who built houses in his mind to stay sane in the POW prison?