But I recall when I read the book that at the end the lawyer was being congratulated by his clients and he turned on them, saying (IIRC from many years ago) that men like Queeg were the ones who "stopped the Nazis from washing their asses with my grandmother."  That line just floored me, and it's still analogous today.  McCain served our country well and bravely, it's not appropriate to cheer his downfall but for the greater good if he needs to be exposed for the doddering fraud he's become then it will be done but we shouldn't take any pleasure from the doing.

It's sad, really--McCain used to be someone I could respect and I feel oddly betrayed that he's fallen so far into the slime pit in pursuit of the presidency.