Washington Wire had one of those moments today when we read the latest issue of Newsweek, which quotes Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain distancing himself from his well-established and long-nurtured national persona. “I never considered myself a maverick,” he told Newsweek. “I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities.”
The statement is stunning on many levels, not least of which because the maverick persona was hammered by the McCain-Palin ticket in the 2008 campaign and long-cultivated by the senator and his supporters years before his presidential bid.
The statement is stunning on many levels, not least of which because the maverick persona was hammered by the McCain-Palin ticket in the 2008 campaign and long-cultivated by the senator and his supporters years before his presidential bid. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently didn’t get the maverick memo when she campaigned as recently as March 26 for McCain’s Senate re-election bid. “Send the maverick back to the United States Senate,” Palin declared. Washington Wire took a quick stroll down memory lane for some of McCain’s greatest maverick hits, below. And we wonder: If McCain is no longer the maverick, what should he be known as?
–Palin did her part in pushing the maverick line in the 2008 campaign, where she regularly referred to both her and McCain as mavericks. “Now John McCain, with a track record of proving he’s not just a patriot in the Senate, he’s known as the maverick,” she said during a Nov. 2008 campaign stop in Ocala, Fla.
–In the lone vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden, Palin said the word “maverick” no fewer than 15 times.
–“We’re both mavericks!” McCain said of himself and Palin during an October 2008 campaign stop.
It is now official John McCain "AKA Jukebox John" has changed his tune on the maverick label that was bestowed on him and clung to like glue. I never considered myself a maverick,” he told Newsweek. “I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities. After the interview the people of Arizona don't think John mcCain has served the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities.BE
John McCain is Border-Line Delusional in an interview with the Arizona Daily Star he admitted he had failed Arizona and the American people in protecting the border. John McCain in his own words;"NOT ENOUGH" A majority of Arizonians and Americans feel exactly the same way. After 28 years in Washington as a Senator McCain had the power to introduce bills, that could bring solutions to the problem and during that time the one and only thing John McCain has not waffled on was IMMIGRATION.
Senator McCain admitted to the Arizona Daily Star editorial board on April 1st that in losing the presidential election, he lost the battle for protecting Arizonans and the American people starting at the U.S.-Mexican border. In an interview published today, the Star questioned John McCain on his plan to secure the border. McCain's response was, "If I were President, I would have come forward with a proposal. And people keep coming to me and saying 'what's your proposal?' And I say, 'look, I lost the election.'"
McCain has criticized Congress for failing to secure the border which prompted the Star to ask the senator, "What have you done to secure the border?"
McCain's response? "Not enough."
As part of the Washington establisment for 28 years John McCain was not powerless to secure the border, he was unwilling.It's past time McCan't exit left. BE
