This just in from the Department of Straw-Grasping...

Who You Callin’ a Maverick?

Considering the family’s long history of association with liberalism and progressive ideals, it should come as no surprise that Ms. Maverick insists that John McCain, who has voted so often with his party, “is in no way a maverick, in uppercase or lowercase.”

“It’s just incredible — the nerve! — to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, ‘Oh, my God, he said it again.’ ”

“He’s a Republican,” she said. “He’s branded.”

Oh shut up. The folks who were calling him a "maverick" the most have been the leftist media, lauding him for jamming his thumb in the eye of President Bush every chance he got. Sen. McCain, as much as the leftist would now have you believe otherwise, is not Pres. Bush 2.0 and he's most definitely not the flaming right-winger they want to portray him as now that he's running against a Democrat instead of Republicans.