John McCain: Make-Believe Maverick

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/1/08 at 6:27pm

"A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty"
Disturbing Record

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/1/08 at 7:22pm

I think it's fair to call him a former maverick. I think he sold out his 'maverickness' in order to win this nomination.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:28pm

I'm not sure I even know what a maverick is. Is it a southern thing? I did see that movie Maverick and I gotta say John McCain is no Mel Gibson.

[NGD2225]

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:37pm

mav·er·ick [mav-er-ik, mav-rik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, esp. an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
2. a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates.
3. (initial capital letter) an electro-optically guided U.S. air-to-ground tactical missile for destroying tanks and other hardened targets at ranges up to 15 mi. (24 km).
[Origin: 1865–70, Americanism; after Samuel A. Maverick (1803–70), Texas pioneer who left his calves unbranded]

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/1/08 at 10:27pm

Oh, he's branded all right.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/4/08 at 11:24pm

The cover hits the stands.

[Jon]

Posted: 10/4/08 at 11:26pm

If I was James Garner, I'd be mighty pissed at McCain calling himself "The Original Maverick"!

[bwayfan9]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 12:12am

John McCain has never been a Maverick

[LePetiteFromage]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 1:46am

Updated On: 1/13/09 at 01:46 AM

[Q]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 2:14am

"Oh, he's branded all right."

HA!

Amen.

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 10:01am

Just once, I'd like someone to ask him to recall and describe the three times he crashed his planes before the POW incident.

[artscallion]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 11:03am

mav·er·ick
n.
1. A maverick is a castrated steer that exhibits erratic behavior by wandering away from the herd and getting lost. It can be rounded up and branded by anyone who finds it..
2. One that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter.

[blueroses]

Posted: 10/5/08 at 11:53am

Here's the new R.S. article about Palin by Matt Taibbi. Scary stuff. Here's a taste:

"Here's the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the thousands to get their balls blown off in foreign lands for no reason at all, saddle them with billions in debt year after congressional year while they spend their winters cheerfully watching game shows and football, pull the rug out from under their mortgages, and leave them living off their credit cards and their Wal-Mart salaries while you move their jobs to China and Bangalore.

And none of it matters, so long as you remember a few months before Election Day to offer them a two-bit caricature culled from some cutting-room-floor episode of Roseanne as part of your presidential ticket. And if she's a good enough likeness of a loudmouthed Middle American archetype, as Sarah Palin is, John Q. Public will drop his giant-size bag of Doritos in gratitude, wipe the Sizzlin' Picante dust from his lips and rush to the booth to vote for her. Not because it makes sense, or because it has a chance of improving his life or anyone else's, but simply because it appeals to the low-humming narcissism that substitutes for his personality, because the image on TV reminds him of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every morning."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin