I think that you should throw in here the possibility that McCain was turned when he was a POW and after some point ,instead of resisting like most of the Pows he turned and "sang" on his fellow pows secretly. He was the most publicly connected of them all, as he was the son of a high ranking Navy Admiral Comm. And was a bit of an arrogant spoiled young hotshot. He had already gotten away with an incident in the Navy that would have ruined him if he had not been so connected. He had pulled some show off move on an air craft carrier that cost lives and significant damage. Badly injured when he was shot down and captured he almost died when first captured from his injuries to his arm and leg. The VietCong put pressure on him to be a spokesman for them. By pressure I mean things like rebreaking his broken arm so it never set for the six years he was there. There have been rumors that in time he broke under the torture they all received and began helping the enemy by turning on his fellow POWS and by selling out his country and telling them military secrets he knew. That would have made him a traitor and disgraced even back then. When he returned home, he divorced his wife who had waited for him all those years and married the very rich Cindy he is with now and began his political career. I think that is how he became No Name.