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maverick stories: 14 news summaries
OPINION

In Piling On Palin, Liberals Make Fools of Themselves

 ...and legitimize her
as a true rogue

Nov 19, 09 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Watching liberals vilify Sarah Palin all over again bothers Lee Siegel. He finds her terrifying as a political prospect—"some of her positions, like her religious opposition to health-care reform and her opposition to stem-cell research, strike me as just shy of sociopathic"—but as an American story,... More »

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Alaska • politics • maverick • wilderness • Sarah Palin • liberal elite • sarah palin book • Lee Siegel • outsider

Meghan McCain

Lieberman's 
Name Ain't 
Benedict 

We need more pols who cross party lines, says maverick junior

Nov 2, 09 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Joe Lieberman’s taking a lot of heat for saying he’ll join a GOP filibuster of the health care bill, but Meghan McCain thinks it’s the kind of courageous stand we need more of in politics. “It’s no secret I have an aversion to partisan politics... More »

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Joe Lieberman • filibuster • maverick • health care reform • moderate • Meghan McCain

ANALYSIS

 Snowe, Not Palin, Is 
 GOP's Real Maverick 

Maine senator's yes on health reform isn't first time breaking with the party

Oct 13, 09 7:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Today’s committee vote for a key health-reform measure isn’t the first time Sen. Olympia Snowe has broken with fellow Republicans—and leads Laurie Kellman to call her, and not former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP’s real maverick. Snowe also voted for President Obama’s stimulus package,... More »

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Senate Republicans • Maine • Olympia Snowe • Republican Party • Senate Finance Committee • maverick • health care reform • George W. Bush • Sarah Palin • President Obama • Angus King

 Maverick McCain 
 Back in Action 

But for some Republicans, Mac's just a pain

Jan 23, 09 9:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Too bad John McCain couldn’t get this story written before the election: the New York Times reports that, back in the Senate, McCain is reverting from his dour, orthodox campaign persona to his maverick and frequently bipartisan ways. He’s been hanging out with President Obama, and he told... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Congress • John McCain • Senate • John Cornyn • Susan Collins • maverick • bipartisanship

 Obama Turning to 
 McCain for Advice 

Former rival is honored guest at inauguration party

Jan 19, 09 6:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Not only is John McCain in town for Barack Obama's inauguration, he's the guest of honor at an event celebrating it, reports the New York Times. In fact, the president-elect has been discreetly consulting his former rival—the one Obama said America can't trust on the Iraq war—on Iraq,... More »

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national security • Barack Obama • John McCain • Republican • Democrat • maverick • inauguration • bipartisanship • Iraq war • President Obama • Obama Cabinet

OPINION

Six Ways
to Rebuild the
McCain Brand

In defeat, the maverick can remind Americans why they liked him

Nov 5, 08 6:46 AM CST
(Newser) - The fight for the presidency has left John McCain's reputation battered and bruised, but Christopher Beam of Slate suggests six steps the senator should take to return to glory.
  • Remeet the press. The bad blood between McCain and the media can be removed if he stops clamming up and
... More »

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John McCain • maverick • McCain 2008 • bipartisanship • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Campaign Buzzwords
We'll Be Happy to Discard

The pitbull with lipstick might've been a game-changer, but enough already

Nov 4, 08 4:05 PM CST
(Newser) - It's an inevitability of any election season: Some phrases will get bandied around so much that the hapless American, simply trying to do his civic duty by paying attention, will be crushed under the sheer weight of political verbiage. The Red Eye lists the worst offenders:
  • Change: As in,
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Obama 2008 • maverick • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Wasilla • Joe the Plumber

OPINION

Who Lost the Race? Blame
the Maverick

Or, more accurately,
the gadfly who couldn't run a campaign

Oct 28, 08 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain could still win the election, but it would be in spite of himself, writes Rich Lowry in the National Review. If Republicans are laying blame for the 2008 race, they should lay it on John McCain, paradoxically the best and worst candidate they could have fielded. McCain’s... More »

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John McCain • maverick • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

OPINION

 McCain 
 Biographer: 
 He's Lost  
 His Principles 


McCain's best accomplishments might have been cynical maneuvering

Sep 18, 08 4:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Drew liked McCain—she even wrote a fawning biography, Citizen McCain, in 2002. She respected the centrist who emerged after McCain’s failed 2000 primary bid, who broke from Bush on tax cuts and campaign finance reform. But watching McCain’s current campaign maneuver back to the right, she... More »

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John McCain • campaign finance • GOP • McCain Feingold • maverick • Republican candidate • Sarah Palin

Analysis

McCain Tries to be Outsider and Insider at Once

He promotes his experience, but seeks to be face of change

Sep 17, 08 7:50 PM CDT
(AP) - John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a song, writes Glen Johnson. Squeeze in and he touts his vast knowledge of the capital city. Draw out and he casts himself a reformer bent on changing its ways. It's a remarkable dichotomy echoed throughout the Republican... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Washington DC • maverick • Sarah Palin • change election

ANALYSIS

 How Fair Is the
 'Third Term' Jab? 

McCain offers some differences, but largely agrees with Bush

Jun 17, 08 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - With President Bush posting record disapproval ratings, Democrats have gleefully dubbed a John McCain presidency a "third Bush term." The claim is at least partially justified, reports the New York Times in an analysis of the "McBush" charge—McCain agrees with Bush on taxation, health care, the... More »

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John McCain • environment • tax cuts • maverick • Republican candidate • third term • U.S. environmental laws • Election 2008 • conservatism • George W. Bush

 Lindsey Graham,
 McCain's 'Mini-Me' 

Why the South Carolina senator is proud to be belittled by GOP candidate

Apr 9, 08 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Lindsey Graham must be getting something special from his friendship with John McCain, Politico writes, because he's willing to be dubbed Mac’s “mini-me” in the press—and called “little jerk” by the candidate himself. Of course, it's worth it for the first-term South Carolina Republican, who... More »

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immigration • John McCain • South Carolina • maverick • Lindsey Graham • judicial nominations

OPINION

Noonan to McCain:
Tell Us What You Believe In

Journal pundit criticizes candidate for lack of guiding philosophy

Mar 14, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Peggy Noonan takes the measure of John McCain in today's Wall Street Journal and wonders "what does he stand for, really?" A friend of the senator's speculates on his "complacency" now that he's secured the nomination, and Noonan goes off: "You have to want the presidency or... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Bill Clinton • philosophy • George HW Bush • maverick • Peggy Noonan • George W. Bush

McCain Hitches Hopes to Petraeus' Star

Steadfast support of war, general may help candidate gain traction

Sep 11, 07 1:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s presidential prospects may rest on his criticism of the Bush administration and his support for David Petraeus, and if the situation allows, the Arizona senator will be rewarded for his support of an unpopular war, the Politico's Roger Simon contends. McCain bemoans the “many... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • John McCain • troop surge • David Petraeus • maverick • Election 2008 • Iraq war

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