McCain is a fine American but in politics... he's a moderate Republican. Republicans have to contribute to conservative Republican campaigns (such as Sarah Palin's or others!) or the news media will continue to keep liberal Democrats and their stupidity covered for the public, and morphed into competent leaders!
The news network formula is easy to see! All a candidate has to do is speak anywhere for 10 minutes and insult the military, cops , christians, achievers or gun owners and the networks declare the candidate a brilliant actor!
Someone so "in touch!" So "caring!"
A candidate who can speak 10 minutes and not insult these target people will be declared out of toch. dull. Rambeling. A homophobic, bigoted ,sexist racist!l
That's all there is to it! If you show contempt for who the news networks hate, they campaign for you. If you fail to show cataloged contempt,the networks wage a hate campaign against you.
Republican modrates consistantly get clobbered by this formula as if they don't see it! And get clobbered again and again...like Mccain!
Conservative Republicans win against this formula. Rather, they counter it! Conservative and Moderate Republicans have different instincts and reflexes. One always fails.
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He became an aviator, and loved life at sea. "No other experience in my life so closely approximated the exploits of the brash, daring heroes who had captivated my schoolboy's imagination," he recalled. "Ever since reading about the storied world of men at arms, I had longed for such a life."
His life changed forever the day he nearly died, on Oct. 26, 1967, when he was shot down over Hanoi. For five years of deprivation, isolation and torture, McCain refused to take advantage of his status as the son of an American admiral. He was offered early release, but refused. The code said POWs could leave only in the order in which they had been captured, and he was a man of the code. When his parents heard he was missing, they were in London, dressing for an evening at the Iranian Embassy; they kept their engagement, saying nothing about their son, setting a pattern of dignified reticence they would maintain for the next five years.
The family was in an extraordinary position, with one son in Hanoi and the father, Jack, who commanded three different submarines in the second world war, becoming commander in chief of the Pacific Command (or CINCPAC, in the Navy's vernacular) in May 1968. "The communists have chosen to make Vietnam the testing ground for their so-called wars of national liberation," Admiral McCain said. "If they can make this kind of aggression work there, we can expect to be faced with more such wars elsewhere. We are there to prove to them it won't work."
The admiral's personnel file makes it clear that he was always forward-leaning. One supervisor called him "the little man with the big cigar," while another noted he was "one of the most competent submarine officers I have ever served with. He has initiative, aggressiveness, as well as enthusiasm for improving the submarine service." He jumped rope 200 times a day to stay in shape.
He was not a political admiral. "My father never even registered to vote," says Joe McCain. "When we were at the breakfast table or the dinner table it didn't take two minutes before the arguments would start [over history and politics] … This is when we were kids, when we were growing up, as soon as we could talk, we would start discussing things. My mother, my brother and I would argue at the top of our lungs, and my dad would only intervene at two points—to correct something or if he felt we were getting disrespectful to my mother." One evening the subject of Gen. Douglas MacArthur came up. "We were arguing about how MacArthur was right about wanting to attack the Chinese after they became involved [in Korea]. John and I and Mother, we were sort of on the same side of this, and my father told us flat out we were wrong, and he said Truman had to fire MacArthur. But we said, 'MacArthur was right, though. The Chinese didn't have any real air-delivery system, they were attacking the north …' He said, 'No, the president of the United States is the commander in chief to make decisions, and the local military commander in the field criticized him … That can lead to coup d'états'."
Admiral McCain did not like to talk about war. "He would make references to Sherman—'War is hell' … You heard war stories from Dad kind of reluctantly," says Joe, and the admiral never mentioned what it was like to order bombings that might put his imprisoned son in danger. "When you're a commander it is hard to put your men in peril, it is hard to put your men in harm's way, and John was in harm's way, but that in no way dissuades you from doing what you need to do," says Joe. "Whether he speculated on what John's reaction to hearing bombs come down [was], I don't know. I'm sure he worried about it … but they're two different areas—area of father and son, and area of commander." Now, decades later, John McCain, who frequently says that he detests war, is also determined to see a struggle through. The Admiral McCain of Vietnam would understand the views of Senator McCain about Iraq.
During Vietnam, Admiral McCain rarely spoke about the fact that John was in prison. "I really can't talk about the boy," the admiral would say when asked. "I pray for him every day." One Christmas, the admiral traveled to the 17th parallel between North and South Vietnam. "Gentlemen, excuse me just a moment," Admiral McCain said, and then he stood alone, gazing across the border for 10 or 15 minutes—gazing toward his son.
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