We Now Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Maverick

The MSNBC posted a decent analysis piece about McCain’s new voting trends titled McCain:  Maverick No More? It’s about how he’s backing his party and proposing alternative amendments to Democrat disasters here lately.  Not only that, but as a solid, impassive, information-reporting piece, it suggests that MSNBC must have put sedatives in the water to keep their reporters from writing what they feel.

Seriously, you know that somewhere, there’s an MSNBC reporter (or dozens) blubbering something along the lines of “MaverickGoByeBye!  AUGH!” and running the counselors attempting to keep them sane ragged.  So being the decent fellow I am, I’m going to give them some comfort.  Ladies and gentlemen of the mainstream media and specifically MSNBC…

MCCAIN’S CONVERSION IS TEMPORARY

This is the second time in two cycles that McCain has become more conservative outside of an election.  It’s McCain trying to get re-elected to his Senate seat.  But unlike the Presidential race, this time McCain is actually trying.

Why would he go through so much trouble now?

1. I don’t know any conservatives that voted for him in 2008.  I know a lot of conservatives that voted against Obama or for Palin, but none that voted for McCain.  Guess which two people aren’t going to be issues in the 2010 Arizona Senate race, where he has to stand on his own merits?
2. But first, he has to get to the Arizona general election.  McCain has a primary challenger, one Chris Simcox.  As McCain’s real record and behavior are giant albatrosses around his neck, he has to try hard to create some amnesia.  Otherwise, he’s going to be the only party leader I know ever to be primaried in the middle of his term.
3. About the only point of agreement I have with the Democrats is that we should get rid of McCain.  If I was alone in this, McCain would be mavericky business as usual.  But I’m not, or 20% of all conservatives wouldn’t have protest voted for Obama.  Apparently this, the fact he’s not entitled to conservative support, or that he can no longer take his base for granted hasn’t been lost on him after his presidential mavericking.

So, don’t be afraid, MSNBC.  It’s just a question of patience on your part.  Happy maverick days are coming soon after November 2010.  But for now, McCain has to get through 2010 with his job.

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