2fer: GHOULiani disowns Crist,uh ENDORSES T-bagger Rubio. Mc5Planes disowns 'maverick' label

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http://gawker.com/5509924/rudy-giuliani-endorses-tea-party-candidate

Rudy Giuliani Endorses Tea Party Candidate

.... And what, exactly, is this about?

Back when Tiny Tyrant Rudy was running for Emperor of America, his brilliant campaign plan was to not bother campaigning anywhere or doing anything until the Florida primaries, which he figured he'd win handily because of the years he put in protecting old Jews from black people and modern artists.

For that plan to work, however, he needed a) to not be such an obviously terrible candidate and unpleasant human being and b) an endorsement from then-wildly popular governor Crist. Crist endorsed McCain.

Rudy has apparently not forgotten that snub, and now, years later, he is giving his uninfluential endorsement to Marco Rubio, the guy who will probably win anyway because Crist is too delusional to just run as an independent.



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http://gawker.com/5509878/original-maverick-john-mccain-says-he-was-never-a-maverick

Original Maverick John McCain Says He Was Never a Maverick

Uh oh, cranky old Senator John McCain's memory is going. "I never considered myself a Maverick," he told Newsweek. Of course, that's just what a real maverick would want you to think.

It's true that McCain's ex-girlfriend, the Washington press corps, is the one who nicknamed him "Maverick," but if his official 2008 campaign ads are any indication, he did not shy away from the label.

Maybe he didn't really mean it? The "Maverick" ad only ran six times in one day.

But, here he is saying it himself during one of his Mavericky Town Halls:

The thing with John McCain is that you have a very weird, personally likable but angry, inconsistent, and unpredictable guy whose incredible pride made him buy into his own media-created myth. He wasn't a maverick until his journalist friends decided to call him one, at which point he made that his entire schtick.

Though maybe McCain is a maverick. In fact, declaring that he's never been a maverick might be the single most mavericky thing he's ever done. This is really the maverick trump card: if everyone says McCain's a maverick, he'll show them by not ever having been one to begin with.

That's the leadership we've come to expect from that ol' maverick John McCain.



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[tanyev]

1. Giuliani's campaign plan was fiendishly brilliant, wasn't it?

Ah, good times.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Yep. Tell everyone that only Florida mattered and then lose Florida.

Nobody could have predicted that strategy.

[KamaAina]

2. NICE snarl!

Puts even Cheney to shame!