No Longer a Maverick

Posted on August 25, 2008 in Campaign 2008

During the Olympics, McCain ran a commercial calling himself “The Original Maverick”.

This, as any keen watcher of the political landscape is both historically untrue and no longer true of Senator McCain. The latter has sold himself out to Mr. Bush with 100% of his votes in 2008 going to support the president. Among the positions he has reversed, for example, is his stand on torture: where he spoke out against it, he now supports it.

The tagline of the new commercial is “Maverick No More”. McCain’s flip-flops to the Bush camp will be enumerated, culminating with his sellout to Big Oil. In the end, the commercial might say “People change. Sometimes for the worse” linking this to pictures of McCain with Bush.

The objective is to take away McCain’s claim to the title which he doesn’t deserve anyways.

On another note, people might be getting tired with McCain answering every criticism with “I spent time in the Hanoi Hilton.” The question here is do we just let them figure out for themselves or does the campaign point it out? A commercial could start with a mention of his heroism there and then list the times he ducked questions on other subjects using it. Come on John, we might say. This election is about more than that.