Is there NOTHING left to believe in? McCain: ‘I never considered myself a maverick’

[Amerigo Vespucci]

:rofl:

McCain: ‘I never considered myself a maverick’

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0405/mccain-i-considered-maverick/



As a presidential candidate, distancing himself from his party was the politically astute move. But now that he's facing a daunting primary challenge from the right, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is working to shed a label he once vigorously embraced.

"I never considered myself a maverick," he told Newsweek's David Margolick in interview to be published in next week's issue. "I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities."

McCain earned a reputation in the media as a maverick earlier in his career for breaking with his party on issues such as tax cuts for the wealthy and campaign finance reform. And he deemed it his path to victory in 2008, persistently painting himself as such in campaign speeches, rallies and ads.

In one 30-second spot that fall, he characterized the McCain-Palin ticket as a team of "original mavericks" fighting for "real change," touting examples of the two rebuffing their party's conventional wisdom and criticizing its leaders.

[louis-t]

1. Teabaggers spell it 'mavrik'.

Giggety.

[PufPuf23]

2. Geez John, I never considered you a serious POTUS candidate nt

[Gman2]

3. Juxtapose that aginst Feingold, Grayson, Waxman, etc.

We are starting to have guts.

[Oregone]

4. Can anyone claim this man was a serious contender against Obama?

Was he merely picked to fall on the sword? Can anyone with a straight face claim the Republicans really thought he would beat Obama? Or was he and Sarah thrown out there to take the loss and start a rabid movement in the process?

I don't know. This seems to be the worst candidate they could of fielded. Especially obvious during his green backdrop "not change you can believe in" speech.

Seems like Obama won long before the general, and he was a distraction in the meantime.

[Ineeda]

8. I've often expressed this theory

that there really was no intention of the rethugs winning. Considering the abysmal state of the country on every possible front -- they didn't want, or didn't know how to deal with it all. Having Obama win meant that they could blame every not-quick-enough or failed effort on him and at the same time, stir up the Beckkk faction for "next time" (after the Dems fixed things.)

[Ganja Ninja]

5. I never considered him a maverick either.

More like a cantankerous old curmudgeon that lives to annoy people whether right or left.

[hlthe2b]

6. Look up the word "pathetic" and you will see a pic of McCain

SO, damned sad, but in reality he first sold his soul at the Hanoi Hilton, which I never really faulted him for doing. But,he surely never got it back. What a pathetic, wasted individual.

[malaise]

7. He's right - he's a fucking opportunist

"My brother called me from California last week during the VP debate and told me if they said the world Maverick one more time, he was going to shoot the TV. Of course, he doesn't have a gun, but, you get the point. My mother was just quoted in the New York Times about how we feel McCain is branded, Palin is branded, they are Republicans, and true Mavericks carry no brand. It's driving our family crazy, upsetting us and the legacy of my family, and we really with the campaign would stop misusing the word and the phrase.

"John McCain on a few occasions has shown that he can go against his party, but how hard is that when his party has been wrong on so many things as we now see," she continued. "But he has a brand. And Palin, I'm not sure she even knows the history of the word of or my family, but one thing is clear to all of my family, she truly is not a Maverick."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/02/original-mavericks-to-mcc_n_140148.html