The New York Times has a lengthy article on McCain and his Neo-con friends
The concerns have emerged in the weeks since Mr. McCain became his party’s presumptive nominee and began more formally assembling a list of foreign policy advisers. Among those on the list are several prominent neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan, an author who helped write much of the foreign policy speech that Mr. McCain delivered in Los Angeles on March 26, in which he described himself as “a realistic idealist.†Others include the security analyst Max Boot and a former United Nations ambassador, John R. Bolton.
This paragraph encapislates the problem with McCain and why surrounding himself with a bunch of neo-con idiots could be a problem for the US:
One of the chief concerns of the pragmatists is that Mr. McCain is susceptible to influence from the neoconservatives because he is not as fully formed on foreign policy as his campaign advisers say he is, and that while he speaks authoritatively, he operates too much off the cuff and has not done the deeper homework required of a presidential candidate.
In other words McCain is lazy and lets other people do his thinking for him. The more I learn about McCain the more he seems like George Bush with a comb-over.