{"id":517582,"date":"2010-04-06T07:50:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77044"},"modified":"2010-04-06T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:50:05","slug":"early-morning-swim-rachel-maddow-on-john-mccain%e2%80%99s-abandonment-of-%e2%80%9cmaverick%e2%80%9d-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517582","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on John McCain\u2019s Abandonment of \u201cMaverick\u201d Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And it’s not just that he’s used that sham of a nickname for years. He just did last week.<\/a><\/p>\n

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At a campaign really for McCain on March 26th, Palin asked Arizona voters to “send the maverick back to the United States Senate” as McCain looked on. She told the crowd that McCain’s “maverick” status hasn’t won him friends from the “Washington D.C. elite machine.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

One reason McCain may be shedding the “maverick” label is that it doesn’t play well with Republican primary voters. McCain is facing a primary challenge from former congressman J.D. Hayworth, who has deemed McCain less than a true conservative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Really brings the choice of Palin into focus, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

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And it’s not just that he’s used that sham of a nickname for years. He just did last week. At a campaign really for McCain on March 26th, Palin asked Arizona voters to “send the maverick back to the United States Senate” as McCain looked on. She told the crowd that McCain’s “maverick” status hasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}