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Oooh, Look, Mavericks!

By W. James Antle, III on 10.14.09 @ 2:54PM

The media lovefest for liberal Republicans has begun. An earlier version of this story ran under the headline: "Palin who? Meet the real GOP mavericks." And then they regale us with all the stories of the usual Republicans who vote to bankrupt the whole country in order to win these kinds of headlines. "Mavericks" like Olympia Snowe and Lindsey Graham voted to rubberstamp every harebrained idea of the Bush administration, from the prescription drug benefit to exporting the Great Society to the Middle East, and now they are doing the same for every cockamamie Obama administration scheme.

These media lickspittles and bipartisan bloviators are supposed to be mavericks? Give me a friggin' break.

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Dixie Pixie| 10.14.09 @ 3:08PM

John McCain is rumored to be soooo JEALOUS of Senator Snows media attention.

McCain| 10.14.09 @ 3:29PM

Jealous? Great, now he'll feel compelled to one up her.

S.L. Toddard| 10.14.09 @ 3:13PM

Lindsay Graham is the archetypal Beltway swine.

Tim| 10.14.09 @ 4:00PM

I know you don't dig criticism but shouldn't that be capital S Swine not swine?

Dog Car Seat| 10.14.09 @ 4:45PM

We'll see what kind of mavericks they really are when they get voted out of office.

John Thacker| 10.14.09 @ 5:23PM

OTOH, John McCain did vote against the prescription drug benefit.

W. James Antle III| 10.14.09 @ 7:48PM

True, though he gets only partial credit for that in my book because one of his reasons for voting no was that Medicare could not impose pharmaceutical price controls through the drug benefit. He did, however, cite the price tag too.

Raoul Ortega| 10.14.09 @ 7:18PM

They are "mavericks" the same way all the "non-conformists" in college dress the same way, take the same classes, listen to the same music, sport the same piercings and tattoos, etc.

danny| 10.14.09 @ 9:23PM

Raoul, you are exactly right. They are mavericks in their own minds. i'd call 'em idiots, but then that wouldn't be politically correct, would it?

lsjogren| 10.16.09 @ 1:09PM

"We'll see what kind of mavericks they really are when they get voted out of office. "

Graham was carefully to put his swinery on hold while he ran for re-election to the Senate last year. Now he can stink up the place for 6 years and there is nothing anyone can do about it.