First there is a maverick, then there is no maverick, then there is! Or not?

John McCain just can’t make up his mind. Is he a maverick or isn’t he? As reported by Gawker McCain gave an interview to Newsweek in which he proclaimed “I never considered myself a maverick”.

Say whut? OK, so many of us never really thought you were actually a maverick (I won’t go into what we did think) but you certainly thought so, hell, you said it every chance you got!

But it seems that McCain the Mavericky Maverick is not what John perceives the Arizona voters want this time around. Apparently they want hard-line conservatives who toe the party line and attract smart people like Sarah Palin (yay!) to their campaign rallies. And so, in what may be the maverickiest maverick move of all (drum roll) McCain proclaims himself as never having been a maverick at all!

For those of you who want to fondly remember the now dead-to-McCain old Maverick persona, TPM has put together a little farewell.

Posted by marindenver on 04/05/10 at 09:40 PM • Permalink

Categories: Politics • Election '10 • Election '08 • St. McSame •

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He’s playing 11 dimensional mumblety-peg.

Comment by Lawnguylander on 04/05/10 at 10:56 PM

Which can only lead to some awesome 11-dimensional wounds.

Comment by M. Bouffant on 04/05/10 at 11:12 PM

If I’m gonna end up with an earworm, might as well be a Donovan earworm. A mavericky Donovan earworm!

Comment by meepmeep09 on 04/05/10 at 11:14 PM

If McCain said he is not a maverick then how is that not being a maverick? Only a maverick would say he is not a maverick.

Comment by roshan on 04/06/10 at 12:57 AM

J. D. Hayworth is already on McCain’s shit over this.

The question for J. D. is how hard can he slap McCain without sliming Sarah Palin? Palin’s endorsement makes kicking Capt. Cranky a tough three-cushion shot for the “true Conservative” in the race.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 04/06/10 at 01:07 AM

McCain has no shame and never did. However, maybe this openly shameless rebranding campaign (“John McCain—Now with more wingnut!”) will make some of the journalists who squealed over him like schoolgirls at a Jonas Brothers concert experience a teensy bit of shame. Or not.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 04/06/10 at 06:54 AM

Ah, it puts one in mind of T.S. Eliot: “There would be no maverick, and there is only the maverick.”