{"id":709457,"date":"2010-04-05T22:57:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22546"},"modified":"2010-04-05T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:57:50","slug":"mccain-%e2%80%9ci-never-considered-myself-a-maverick%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/709457","title":{"rendered":"McCain: \u201cI Never Considered Myself A Maverick\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who&#8217;s trying to fight off a primary challenger who claims McCain is too moderate, has in an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/235883\"><em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a> gone back on his most famous nickname.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never considered myself a maverick,&#8221; McCain said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TPM has the <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/04\/maverick-john-mccain-and-his-forsaken-nickname.php\">video compilation<\/a> that gives the lie to the Mother of all flip-flops:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-22546\"><\/span><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TmLVtU6fTPs&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Well, if he&#8217;s not a maverick, that apparently means that he now does work for a party and he now does work for special interests.<\/p>\n<p>Of such things are an unlivable climate made.<\/p>\n<p>Related Posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to Rolling Stone on \u201cThe Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb the climate catastrophe.\u201d\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/01\/09\/rolling-stone-climate-killers-polluters-and-science-deniers-rupert-murdoch-warren-buffett-john-mccain\/\">Rolling Stone on \u201cThe Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb the climate catastrophe\u201d &#8212; including McCain.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Permanent Link to McCain falsely claims he has \u2018never favored\u2019 capping global warming pollution\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/02\/17\/mccain-hypocrite-cap-greenhouse-gas-emissions\/\">McCain falsely claims he has \u2018never favored\u2019 capping global warming pollution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who&#8217;s trying to fight off a primary challenger who claims McCain is too moderate, has in an interview with Newsweek gone back on his most famous nickname. &#8220;I never considered myself a maverick,&#8221; McCain said. TPM has the video compilation that gives the lie to the Mother of all flip-flops: Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YyR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}