McCain is a dimwit. He graduated in the bottom 1% of his class at the Naval Academy. If he wasn't the son of an Admiral, McCain would have never been admitted, let alone graduated.

After graduation, McCain went on to lose 5 Navy aircraft, 3 of them accidents directly attributable to pilot error on his part. Plane no. 1 he dumped in Corpus Christi Bay while practicing landings, no 2 he lost when he hit some power lines over the Iberian Peninsula, no 3 went down when McCain was returning from an Army/Navy football game.. With a record like that, I wouldn't be surprised if he could have avoided his problem in Vietnam had he had more skill. McCain is not presidential material.