Posted on 04/05/2010 1:41:12 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain, who has long been identified in the media as a self-professed "maverick," says in a new interview that he never thought the word applied to him.
"I never considered myself a maverick," McCain told Newsweek. "I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities."
That's a striking comment in light of the number of times that the former Republican presidential candidate has embraced the term; at a town hall meeting in Michigan in September of 2008, he said, "Sarah [Palin] and I don't agree on every issue -- what do you expect of two mavericks? To agree on everything?"
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At a campaign really for McCain on March 26th, Palin asked Arizona voters to "send the maverick back to the United States Senate" as McCain looked on. She told the crowd that McCain's "maverick" status hasn't won him friends from the "Washington D.C. elite machine."
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Contradicts Palin????
Heck...he just contradicted himself! (but what else is new!)
Yes. Too late, I read your book years back. A Maverick (M) and a Rino (R) ... M R McCain.
McCain is nuts!
If he’s not a maverick I’m the Pope.
“I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities.”
Hey McKennedy, guess you’ve considered wrong.
However, I consider you resigning as a fine way to serve not only the people of Arizona, but the people of the U.S.
Doesn’t that kind of look like Rabscuttle?
No, he’s just a DemocRAT mole.
McCain won the favor of the MSM by portraying himself as a maverick. The more McCain talks, the worse he looks. He needs to be retired.
Does ‘Maverick’ mean conservative?
Up yours, McCain!
Too late, Juan. You’ve been FOUND OUT!
I don’t call him a maverick.
Thats not exactly the word I had in mind.
I wish someone could put together a collage of soundbites where McCain says that he is a Maverick. It would be a long one.
Here’s a start: approving the message that he is the “original maverick.” http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/new-ad-calls-mccain-the-original-maverick/
Looking for more.
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