Somebody please tell me how McCain voting 90% w/Bush & stealing Obama's call for change = maverick?

[quiet.american]

More like an absolutely pathetic doddering fool and pitiful sellout to Bush et al. -- add to that a bold-faced liar as well (the newsclip of him today snarling a lie that Obama would increase taxes makes McCain look like he forgot to take his medicine).

It's infuriating to watch the talking heads blithely go along with McCain's sudden-found, farcical call for change without blinking an eye to acknowledge he has templated Obama's campaign and merely did a Ctrl+R to replace all the real proposals with Republican talking points! In fact, I wonder what the Kool-Aid drinkers at the Repub convention thought was going on, when, one moment they've been whipped into a frenzy to chant, zombie-like "Keep Your Change! Keep Your Change!," and then their dear leader comes out and promises to deliver... my friends, change.

John McCain can't even develop his own party platform without stealing it from Barack Obama! How is this evidence of his maverick-ness?

Pathetic. This is the most pathetic Republican ticket I've ever seen -- and that's saying something.

/rant

[msongs]

1. because they say so and repeating it over and over makes it so - great promotion eh? nt

[mucifer]

2. a large portion of the electorate is stupid

[Amy6627]

3. If everything is great (economy great, unemployement great, we haven't been "hit" again) Why

does McSame says he will bring change to Washington? Nothing needs to be changed! It's GREAT!

[quiet.american]

4. I would love to see him hit with that line in a debate. nt

[Amy6627]

12. Did you see Howard Dean on with Tom Brokaw? They showed

a great new ad from the DNC showing how McSame says the same things Bush does.

http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/09/governor_dean_o_38.php

[quiet.american]

15. Thank you for that link! Another homerun ad, and people-powered Howard rocked. nt

[kansasblue]

5. Rovian

Take on your candidate strength.

The sleepy voter is saying: ' which one is for change?'

[quiet.american]

17. Yep. nt

[Elidor]

6. Maverick in the "bald-faced liar and thief" sense

Maverick in the "I'll say anything to get elected" sense.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. This picture needs to be put up on billboards all over the country...

and any or all of these..

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Here is what the poster could look like.

[quiet.american]

11. McCain cuddles up to Shrub more than he does to Cindy. (Thanks for the photos). nt

[krkaufman]

8. Ummm.... McCain's is such a maverick that he'll go against his own party ....

... and even his own positions from a week before.

Say maverick!

[DaveofCali]

9. McCain is trying to get away with REPACKAGING himself as the Maverick of 2000! n/t

[Solomon]

13. I'll answer your question! McCain can claim he is a maverick

because Bush was a maverick. Remember when they were lauding Jr. for this very quality? And we know what the hell happens with a maverick in charge don't we?

And consider, the republicans want to replace the current maverick, with not one, but TWO damn mavericks.

I don't think so.

So I say let them brag all they want about being mavericks. And then point out that maverick is what got us into this mess.

[quiet.american]

16. Hmn... could work. :) nt

[Life Long Dem]

14. I would have a feeling that they control us.

What if all hell breaks loose?

Obama is breaking records for the history books. You just don't break records and lose the race. Unless they control us.

[Solomon]

18. Sometimes I think that Obama's campaign is so sophisticated

in the use of technology that somehow, with all the emails, text messaging, etc, he can figure out a way to prove how many people voted for him so that hacking the machines wouldn't work. Even if the other side thinks he might have developed such a weapon, it would back them off from trying wholesale theft.