The Myth of the Maverick


Many in the news ask why isn’t Obama more ahead of John McCain? Polls show them in a neck and neck race even up to August.

Democracy Waning has an answer.

Lots of people say we don’t know Barack but we know John McCain. Well I think that most people don’t know McCain. I believe there are quite a few” Low information Voters”(LIVs) who don’t really know anything and don’t really want to find out. They simply take things for granted and then take those things to heart.

John McCain calls himself a “Maverick.” Well, what is a Maverick? The dictionary says the word comes from the proper name of Samuel Maverick a pioneer in the 1870s who did not brand his calves. Also in that same spirit it calls maverick a man who goes against his party or group.

Is John McCain a “Maverick?”

Well, at first blush the LIVs think John McCain may be one. He did go against his party in 2000 but then the party wouldn’t pick him as their candidate. But in 2008 John McCain has to re-make himself to the party to win. So he changed his maverick ways and became one of the republican parties rank and file.

McCain has voted with Bush 95% of the time in 2007 and 100% of the time so far in 2008, but he still calls himself a maverick.

He has changed his mind about core values over 27 times including his flip flops on tax cuts, global warming and his own bill on border security, which he no longer backs.

Remember when he called Fallwell, Robertson and others of that ilk “agents of religious intolerance”. But then he went to Bob Jones University, the home of intolerance to announce his candidacy.

John McCain says that he can track down Osama Bin Laden and that he knows how to win a war. It’s his war experience that he will use against our enemies.

Now that sounds really believable to the LIVs, but Has anyone asked John “what is you history in tracking down wanted men?” Has John McCain ever shown up with a wanted felon in tow? Has he ever been on “Dog the Bounty Hunter or Most Wanted or Cops”? No. And his ability to win the war is about as likely.

Has John McCain ever been on the winning side of a war?

He was last in his class at the naval academy. Do they give a winners trophy or even a participation ribbon for that?

He spent the last five years of the Vietnam War in prison, on the bench.

Where does he get his ability to win when he has never stood in the winners circle?

John McCain has a beautiful trophy wife now with her he’s a winner but what did he have to do to his first wife to get Cindy?

When McCain returned from Vietnam his wife Carol was not the same young model he had said good-bye to. She had been in a terrible car crash and after learning to walk again and gaining weight she was no longer the trophy wife he had left behind.

John McCain dated Cindy Hensley for 8 months before he was divorced. H e asked her to marry him and got a marriage license before his first marriage was over.

Democracy Waning wants to know is this the kind of values you LIVs expect from your Senator or President?