I read an article in the admittedly left-leaning Rolling Stone magazine called MAKE-BELIEVE MAVERICK:
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty
If even half of what’s written in this scathing article is true, it would be a disaster to have this guy in charge of anything.
… Few politicians have so actively, or successfully, crafted their own myth of greatness. In McCain’s version of his life, he is a prodigal son who, steeled by his brutal internment in Vietnam, learned to put “country first.” Remade by the Keating Five scandal that nearly wrecked his career, the story goes, McCain re-emerged as a “reformer” and a “maverick,” righteously eschewing anything that “might even tangentially be construed as a less than proper use of my office.”
It’s a myth McCain has cultivated throughout his decades in Washington. But during the course of this year’s campaign, the mask has slipped. “Let’s face it,” says Larry Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. “John McCain made his reputation on the fact that he doesn’t bend his principles for politics. That’s just not true.” …
It’s on newsstands now.
Rick McCharles 
Psychiatrists define maverick (see wikipedia) as schizophrenic, self centered, unwilling to belong, party-of-self, suppozably centrist, like Nixon, Giuliani, Dole (all selfish womanizers). Avenge Abramoff. We know McCain’ retired Senate buddies did whatever Abramoff did. Jack’s only sin was beeing too young and too successful and Jewish. Call him Maverdick.