People have to remember that talents are necessarily transferable. I respected McCain's service, his honor, that he was a man who did care about his country and service, and that his heart was generally near right place. I never thought he was a particularly deep political thinker, was on the opposite side from him on many policy issues. I also thought he caved on a lot his independent principles once it was the brass ring of the Presidency that he was reaching for, which was somewhat a disappointment. Least appealing was that he occasionally couldn't hide the sense of entitlement he clearly felt by being challenged by Obama. But in retrospect, he'd be even more the man among children in today's GOP.