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John McCain Continues His Strange Denial Of His Former Maverick Self

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by Glynnis MacNicol | 5:22 pm, April 18th, 2010

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Senator John McCain’s name-calling with himself continues. See if you can parse some sense out of this:

Look, when I was fighting against my own president, whether we needed more troops in Iraq, whether spending was completely out of control, than I was a maverick. Now that I am fighting against this spending administration, and this out of control and reckless health care plan, then I’m a partisan. I’ve been called a lot of things and I’ll be glad to be called anything, but I’m a fighter and that’s what I am.

Translation: John McCain will be anything he needs to be to get elected (subsequently this song is now stuck in my head). Following this…explanation, Chris Wallace points out that actually other people weren’t calling John McCain a maverick he was calling himself one. No matter! He’s still a fighter. Also he’d prefer to be called “a great American.” Video of the strange exchange below. I hate to say it, but a couple more explanations like these and McCain is going to be ‘fighting’ senility charges more than anything else.

Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday, John McCain, maverick, Sarah Palin

MarkStr82Hell

THE OLD MAN NEEDS TO RETIRE…..SORRY JOHN, YOU ARE SENILE
timzank

Once again I will say, Thank You Senator for your service to country, I appreciate it, now please gracefully stfu and go home.
Munch

Agreed!
The Real Royal King

This is one of the oddest phenomenon I haveever seen in American politics. If the Reprublicans have no room for a man like McCain, they have no room for anyone.
Rusty Shackelford

Wonder why the repubs lost? Wonder no more.
They chose this guy over Mitt?
TylerDurden

You are correct.
TylerDurden

McCain was showing signs of senility during the General election and I guess this is just a continuation of it.
SteveMG

What on earth is he doing? Does he really believe that people forgot he was calling himself a maverick?

Did he forget? Wallace showed him the tapes.

Weird.
imnotyourkind

Thank God he didn’t win in 2008. He’s losing it.
m

Thank-freaking-Christ that he’s not our President. Seriously. This guy is a mess.
blueblogger

You all are forgetting that had he won we also would have nutty Palin. Can’t you just see her running the show with him??? MAYBE THERE REALLY IS A GOD!!!
ImNotBlue

Translation: John McCain will be anything he needs to be to get elected…

Wow… that’s pretty impressive. You missed what he was saying almost exactly 100%!

What he’s saying is that he was considered a “maverick” because he would fight against a Republican… and now he’s fighting against a Democrat for the very same reasons. The only difference is the interpretation taken by some in the media (Glynnis would be a good example), because it’s considered “bad” that he’s attacking Obama (or as Glynnis says, disingenuous), but it was good when he was attacking Bush.

Simply put, it’s partisanship on the part of the media… not McCain.

The Real Royal King says:
April 18, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Joe Lieberman?
MarkStr82Hell

“Я думаю, когда вы это богатство вокруг, это хорошо для всех”.
Барак Обама
Averreauxii

I used to respect John McCain. Not anymore.
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My friends, his a crazy old guy. but you have to respect a man who was in a pow camp for what 4 years, kinda like a crazy grandpa.

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kristianna

Great man.I was wondering this impressive video only.I always appreciate to Senator for his great work.
Thanks Senator for great explanations.
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