John Mccain Maverick

Wash Post: McCain The Maverick Is Back

Washington Post | Shailagh Murray | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


A joke made its way around the Capitol yesterday: How do you know the 2008 election is really over? Because John McCain is causing trouble for Republi...

Original Mavericks To McCain: "You're No Maverick"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics


Brave New Films talks to the actual original Mavericks, who aren't too fond of John McCain using their name: Fontaine Maverick, great-great-grandd...

Out of Line: No Maverick

Mort Gerberg | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics


Mort Gerberg

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It's Not Just Palin -- It's The Message

Joe Trippi | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics


Joe Trippi

In a country that yearns for post-partisan change, the Obama campaign risks sounding too partisan and like more of the same.

Don't Think of a Maverick! Could the Obama Campaign Be Improved?

George Lakoff | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics


George Lakoff

Obama needs to be Obama again, the inspiring figure who gives us hope, not the dull policy wonk. Post-Palin, the Obama-Biden campaign seems to have become the Gore-Kerry-Hillary campaign.

GOP Consultant: McCain A "Grumpy Old Man"

Washington Independent | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics


Sen. John McCain, American war hero and admired political maverick, as well as presumed Republican nominee for president, had a message for Elisabeth ...

The Press Talks About an Obama Bias, All While Giving McCain Special Treatment

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics


Mitchell Bard

For McCain to try to argue that he is not being treated fairly by the media is downright outrageous. Nobody in the history of modern politics has been a bigger media sweetheart than John McCain.

Democrats Still Have Work to Do to Win in November

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics


Mitchell Bard

I besiege Democrats not to take an Obama win for granted. We can't assume everyone in the country is aware of McCain's weaknesses and fidelity to the Bush agenda.

What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.

'Reformer' McCain Repeatedly Did Favors For Wealthy Donor

NY Times | David Kirkpatrick & Jim Rutenburg | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics


Donald R. Diamond, a wealthy Arizona real estate developer, was racing to snap up a stretch of virgin California coast freed by the closing of an Army...