In addition to all the above, no one seems to remember that McCain picked a person whose husband supported (maybe still supports) Alaska secession from the USA. A real “Country First” type of person.
The military is very much a “Navy Family” type organization. McCain’s father and grandfather were both Admirals. There is a belief that John McCain was very incompetent in the Navy to the point of officers wishing they could get him out of the Navy. I do not know if that is true since I have never asked any Navy personnel, active or retired, but heard it from their significant others and friends. It certainly is plausible. If McCain did not have this link to power, it is just possible that he would have been run out of the Navy. As it stands, it would have been professional suicide for any Navy officer to say anything against McCain or the tradition of “Navy Families”.
This does not diminish his major feat of surviving a prisoner of war camp, as did many other of our military folks. There was even a TV news interview of the former commandant of the POW camp. The commandant endorsed McCain, saying something such as; If I were an American, I would want McCain as president. That interview has not resurfaced since its initial airing.
Those additional associations are interesting, especially the commandant. The family one is just life in a nepotistic organization and to be expected. The secessionist association is just another example of lack of judgment that he decries in others.
