John McCain is now repudiating a label that has been applied to him since the 2000 election:
Much as the crowd ate up her every word, Palin had apparently missed the real message this electoral season in Arizona: for his three decades in Congress, McCain hadn’t gone with the flow enough, at least not enough to satisfy many Arizona Republicans. Why else would his rival, former congressman J.D. Hayworth, be billing himself as “the consistent conservative”? Many of the GOP’s most faithful, the kind who vote in primaries despite 115-degree heat, tired long ago of McCain the Maverick, the man who had crossed the aisle to work with Democrats on issues like immigration reform, global warming, and restricting campaign contributions. “Maverick” is a mantle McCain no longer claims; in fact, he now denies he ever was one. “I never considered myself a maverick,” he told me. “I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities.”
Ummm, Senator:
And, ummm……
And then there’s that book you wrote remember ? It was called Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him
Fail Senator, one massively stupid fail.
NO WAY! McCain has always been a leader on the issue that has always been important but hasn’t been focused on sufficiently until this year, and that’s the spending issue not to mention he’s been ighting the hardest against the obama administration trying to ram big government down our throats. McCain is the clear front-runner here– ESPECIALLY to JD Hayworth! That blowtard hasn’t got a chance.
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