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Stop it with the Maverick BS already

Nyarlathotep

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Nyarlathotep
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I have just listened to Sarah Palin on the news and apparently someone on the campaign team has told her to use the world "Maverick" as many times as possible and she is listening to them. Apparenly every other word out of her mouth has to be "Maverick". I am half surprised she didn't end the debate "Well, McCain and I are such Mavericks that we even drive Mavericks. Now if you'll excuse me I just got my copy of Maverick on DVD." I also keep seeing one of their idiotic campaign ads where they call themselves "Mavericks" roughly 1,875,312 times.

Seriously, do they think repeating the same word over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again is going to convince anyone that isn't already pre-disposed to like them. "Gosh, I thought McCain was just like every other Republican, but since they have called themselves mavericks soo many times, it MUST be true":rolleyes:

Just ahd to get that off my chest.

I can't wait until this stupid election is over.
 
Nyarlathotep said:
Seriously, do they think repeating the same word over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again is going to convince anyone that isn't already pre-disposed to like them.
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Yes, they do think that. Republicans love the 'brainwashing-through-repetition" tactic. It's not the media, it's the liberal media. They're not taxes, they're job-killing taxes. Just keep saying 'em over and over...

Steve S.
 
(For you old fogies who remember the TV show)

Who is the greying stranger there?
Maverick is his game.
Old as the guy from Delaware,
Meaner than a bobcat
With a palsied brain

Smooth as the lipstick on a pig,
Maverick is his claim
Ready to send an oil rig
Into the Atlantic
"Cut tax", he'll proclaim
***
Liberals give him hell
Rush Limbaugh thinks he's swell
Ducking the issues is what he does best

Found him a Tundra queen
Both of them vent their spleen
Mavericks, we're not very much impressed
 
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A maverick is just a calf who didn't have the sense to stay with the herd.

Okay, so sometimes the water is not in the direction the herd is heading. More likely it is. Sometimes, just being dumb enough to wander away from the task at hand, or doing something nobody else would do (possibly because it is a brain-dead idea) will make you look like a maverick. (But it could also make you look as though you suffer from Alzheimers or schizophrenia.)
 
Nyarlathotep said:
Seriously, do they think repeating the same word over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again is going to convince anyone that isn't already pre-disposed to like them.
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You mean like "Change"?
 
Nyarlathotep said:
"Gosh, I thought McCain was just like every other Republican, but since they have called themselves mavericks soo many times, it MUST be true"
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Here here.


Or possibly, "Hear hear." I've never seen the phrase written, only spoken, and it's not clear from the context which it is. I could look it up but I kind of want to be surprised.
 
Oh the irony.

See, John McCain's "Maverick" label comes from bucking the GOP on mostly domestic polices but on foreign policy he almost in lock (goose) step, outside of going against Ronald Reagan's decision to deploy U.S. troops to Lebanon.

The tightrope he walks.... he can't really spell out WHY he is a maverick because that would turn off his base but he has to distance himself from Bush to the independents.

Campaign finance reform, regulatory powers over tobacco products (which was a bill he introduced one time and never backed again), calling out the religious right (not only has he backed away from this stance, he has now endorsed by the same "agents of intolerance," a flip flop he would like us all to forget), man made global warming and renewable energy (the last point is newly minted in the GOP lexicon which means he can now safely speak about but only in conjunction with "drill baby drill").

What makes him a maverick (in his eyes anyway) are the things that the base would not vote for him on but might sway independents. To the base "don't dig too deep, trust me I am a maverick," to the independents "go look at my record, I am no George W Bush that's for sure."

These two counter arguments held in the same simple word "Maverick" are going to come full circle at some point, and I feel that is already starting to take place now if polling numbers are to be believed.
 
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