There was a time when people saw that John McCain was a veteran and a former prisoner of war and that he had long-served on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and people afforded him a large degree of respect and deference on military matters and foreign policy. Then it turned out that John McCain was the dumbest man on the planet when it came to military matters and foreign policy. So, no one cares what he has to say about those things anymore.
Casual Observation
