The real McSame: A Real Maverick

Just checking the Websters this afternoon and here's their definition of maverick - 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. The Democrats and the Obama campaign should be hitting this hard. McSame says he's a maverick and people tend to believe it. But they're all looking at the second definition - one that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group. Now we all know that this is mere fabrication. John McSame voted with George Bush over 90% of the time. That's not a maverick. He changed his positions on taxes and torture and pretty much everything else to adhere to strict Republican policy. Adherence to policy is not being a maverick. Resisting it is. But Democrats should look at the first definition. "TRADITIONALLY THE PROPERTY OF THE FIRST PERSON WHO BRANDS IT." That is John McSame. He has been branded by the ultra-right wing of the POW party. He has been branded by the fundamentalist theocrats who are the base and chose his highly unqualified VP running mate. He has been branded by the lobbyists who run his campaign. He has been branded by Karl Rove, Bush's puppetmaster who "advises" the campaign and calls the shots. Rove is a master proponent of the Big Lie, which makes perfect sense as the Big Lie is the famous propaganda technique defined by Rove mentor A. Hitler in his book Mein Kampf but spun by Nazi spinmeister Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels' take on the Big Lie is Rove's - "...lie big and stick to it. Keep up the lies even at the risk of looking ridiculous." Since the press rarely, if ever, calls McSame on his lies (He was a POW!, which is his get out of jail free card for everything) why not call him a maverick and insist that you use the original definition. McSame has been branded over and over and over - the flesh may not be burnt but the lack of empathy for the middle and working classes, the hatred of the poor, the acceptance of religious intolerance and anti-intellectualism, and the adherence to power and violence and military might as answers to complex global problems are SURELY BURNED INTO HIS SOUL.