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We’ve been maveRick-Rolled

Sarah, Meet John

Here’s something I’ve been trying to wrap my head around, but have not been able to.

Media Narrative 1: McCain really wanted to pick Lieberman for Vice-President, because he likes Lieberman and he is a Maverick. Lieberman, however, would have pissed off the Republican base.

Media Narrative 2: McCain picked Sarah Palin over many more conventional choices because he is Maverick. Also, she happens to cater perfectly to the desires of his raving base.

So basically, whatever McCain does, even if it’s caving to his own desires to settle for someone who placates Conservatives, the media will still call him Maverick. I’m getting to the point where, every time I hear or say Maverick, I feel like I’m being molested in my ear or mouth a little bit.

All I know is, if Sarah Palin were Maverick Tom Cruise’s Top Gun Flight School Instructor in Top Gun the Movie, he would have crashed his fighter jet in World War I, just like Maverick John McCain.

Marcel Parcells
2:46 pm on Thu, Sep 4, 2008
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Gerald Fnord 1 month ago 1 point
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McCain was maverick-rolled (I thought of it too, you beat me to it) because he clicked on a link that he thought would lead to a reformer who would energise the Chrisitans and attract some moderate suburban women, but instead got a whole song-and-dance from a power-abusing nut-job who seems intent on making us remember McCain as "the guy whose supporters were reduced to a would-be lynch-mob".

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