Well, whoop-whoop-whoop-de-doo.
With all due respect to John McCain, who was my party's standard-bearer in 2008, and for whom I almost voted for the Republican nomination in the Nebraska primary in 2000, he's only a senile old coot now, hardly worth any hero-worship, even from a primitive.
People change over time. I offer the examples of the first George Bush, the sparkling old dude, and Minnesota Moses. They were once quite different than they are now, and the comparison isn't a favorable one.
There comes a point in the lives of all of us that one becomes old and disoriented, and one can't take us seriously any more. The mike_c primitive today, franksolich tomorrow or maybe next week.