There have been a few instances in the blogosphere about “McCain made great comments at the healthcare summit” and so forth, but as a proper maverick supporter, I don’t care.
If you would like to see this sort of behavior in Republicans more often, you can help insure it by replacing McCain with a junior Senator like Hayworth. Unlike McCain, Hayworth can’t force his way into leadership roles and take them away from more deserving sorts like DeMint or Inhofe once he reverts to progressive form after an election. That’s because he will both be a junior Senator, and that there’s no progressive in him. He also has no track record of turning conservative Senators into gibbering idiots, like McCain did with the Official Maverick Lapdog Lindsey Graham (Pomeranian – SC).
He’s the only reason McCain is pretending to be conservative so aggressively lately anyway. Win or lose, McCain will be his annoying self after the Republican primary in August. It’s just that if he loses, you won’t have to put up with it for as long.
But forget all that. Today, I want to talk about killer whales.
A killer whale recently killed its trainer at Sea World, and yes, this is tragic. The bottom line, however, it that they are called KILLER whales for good reason. Despite their beauty and well-trained “friendliness” in theme park shows, they don’t refer to them this way as a form of ironic humor. In the wild, killer whales are CARNIVORES which eat things like seals. Violently.
Well, in captivity, these creatures don’t suddenly take up a Vegan diet. They still eat meat. And while they tend to be a bit tamer, somewhere in their makeup is the potential for behavior that keeps them alive in the wild. The predatory sort of behavior that makes sure they eat enough of what they need to keep living.
In the end, they’re a lesson on leopards changing their spots, like Democrats and mavericks pretending to be conservative around election time. Yes, they’re big and beautiful, and they can be trained to act friendly and perform tricks. However, the bottom line is that they’re still killer whales. And occasionally, Tea Partiers.