McCain to Graham: I'm Not the Senate Maverick, but You Can't Be One Either (MCCAIN TEMPER ALERT)

Newsweek ^ | 2010-10-04

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Yet months earlier, according to Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker piece about the failure of climate-change legislation this year, McCain became "enraged" when a December 2009 article on Time's Web site passed the nickname on to Sen. Lindsay Graham, whom the headline called the NEW GOP MAVERICK IN THE SENATE. Writes Lizza:

Graham told colleagues that McCain had called him and yelled at him, incensed that he was stealing the maverick mantle. “After that Graham story came out, McCain completely stopped talking to me,” Jay Newton-Small, the author of the Time piece, said.

With that, McCain’s statement to NEWSWEEK in April 2010 seems even more out of place. While he may have publicly shunned the maverick label, it appears likely that he's merely concealing his independent streak, keeping it under wraps until he can secure another six-year Senate term. At the very least, his jealousy of Graham indicates McCain does, at least on some level, value his maverick reputation.

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Graham told colleagues that McCain had called him and yelled at him, incensed that he was stealing the maverick mantle. “After that Graham story came out, McCain completely stopped talking to me,” Jay Newton-Small, the author of the Time piece, said.

[Leisler]

Jesus, what a pair of losers.

[rabscuttle385]

While he may have publicly shunned the maverick label, it appears likely that he's merely concealing his independent streak, keeping it under wraps until he can secure another six-year Senate term. At the very least, his jealousy of Graham indicates McCain does, at least on some level, value his maverick reputation.

[McGavin999]

You’d have to have fewer then 2 brain cells to rub together not to realize that McCain will be back to the “old” McCain one minute after the elections.

[onedoug]

AZ voted for this putz? Wow!

[apillar]

Ahh, how sweet! A lovers quarrel.

[kalee]

Then the majority of Arizonans must be lacking in brain cells because they WILL reelect him.

[ontap]

Jhon McCain has to be one of the most dishonest politician in the senate....real sleaze bag!!

[ontap]

Jhon = John

[dforest]

Looks like the “pooch” screwed his master. LOL

[Georgia Girl 2]

Can you say “juvenile”?

[TomGuy]

he's merely concealing his independent streak, keeping it under wraps until he can secure another six-year Senate term

The AZ voters are apparently the only ones hoodwinked by the McCain shift to the right and his recent 'I saw the light' conservatism.

Most of us outside AZ sure were not hoodwinked by his sudden revelations that we have a border and it is has serious problems, for example.

[How many actual days was McCain in the Senate representing the good people of AZ during his current term? He had one of the highest absenteeism rates of any Senator. AZ deserves what they get.]

[sickoflibs]

RE:” Graham told colleagues that McCain had called him and yelled at him, incensed that he was stealing the maverick mantle. “After that Graham story came out, McCain completely stopped talking to me,” Jay Newton-Small, the author of the Time piece, said”

The specific wording of this recollection makes little sense. “I am mad you are stealing my Maverick mantle while I have to make believe I am a conservative.” ??? I don't see a conversation going that way.

But if McCain is mad, he could just publicly hint that Graham is a RINO. Call him Graham-nesty if it bothers him.

[cableguymn]

You see a problem with mclame being MIA from the senate a lot? considering the “mavrick” causes more harm than good when he is there I wish he was there less often ;)

[pgkdan]

This is the one race in the country where I actually hope the democrat wins. John McCain will be a tremendous impediment to conservative progress after the election if he wins. He needs to lose.

[MaggieCarta]

Ahh, how sweet! A lovers quarrel.

Giggle. I was thinking the exact same thing! You could almost feel the sting of rejection...

[MBB1984]

Just a little spat between two dear and very intimate friends.

[Condor51]

McCain to Graham:
I'm Not the Senate Maverick, but You Can't Be One Either

How about that sen. McInsane. And all that time you thought Lindsey was playing Personal Valet and Suck-Up, was because he admired and liked you.

ps: How's that knife in the back feel, Hmmmm, John?
Now you know how your Republicans colleagues feel, ya jackass.

[BobP]

Can't this old turd just dry up and blow away?

He really is clueless. A perfect putz.

[rabscuttle385]

Just a little spat between two dear and very intimate friends.