Branded
Susan has an excellent post up about the true nature of the McCain-Palin campaign. Go read it.
On a side note, she links to a definition of maverick that actually surprised me:
So, question is, who was the first one to brand McCain? I just know it definitely wasn't me.
On a side note, she links to a definition of maverick that actually surprised me:
mav·er·ick (māv'ər-ĭk, māv'rĭk)
n.
1. An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.
So, question is, who was the first one to brand McCain? I just know it definitely wasn't me.
posted by onlooker at 7:03 PM
2 Comments:
I think McCain probably branded himself. He was a maverick in the family -- grandpa and dad were admirals, while he was a cut-up at the Naval Academy, barely graduating.
He left his wife and three children behind to volunteer to fly bomber missions early in the Viet Nam war. He flew a killing machine off a carrier and never saw his targets face to face until he was shot down.
He was tortured and survived, but came back to resume his previous life as a career naval officer. His midlife crisis was marked by his divorce and new marriage. In the Senate he got mixed up in the Keating Five S&L scandal, but survived.
Burned by both his torture experience and close call with the ethics committee, he started to assert himself in the Senate as he did at the Academy, as a rebel, even challenging the fair-haired boy, George W. Bush for the presidency.
Now he has compromised his maverick brand to secure the Republican base he once scorned.
The old tv show "Maverick" starring James Garner had a great theme song: "Maverick is the hero of the West." Although I never met him, I feel that I knew James Garner. He was a friend of mine, in a way.
Senator McCain, you're no James Garner.
origin of the definition:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05schwartz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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