FAQs

Why is there other stuff on this site besides McCain stuff?

I’m passing the time until 2010, when I can become his Bestest #1 Maverick Supporter in the Whole Wide World again during his Senate campaign.  Until then, I have to keep the masses happy with other news and politics, or until McCain starts preening in front of a camera lens, which will give me the opportunity to shower him with still more maverick adulation.

Who is Ned the Intern?

The official YankMcCain.com running gag and only other member of the YankMcCain.com staff.  Since he’s just a PHP script, he doesn’t mind.  He is, in fact, a licensed copy of the Autoblogged script, and he helps me aggregate my topics for the day.

Don’t worry.  I don’t take what he gives me and post it verbatim.  He’s just for speedlinking and topic hunting purposes only.

Do I have to break the law to be a maverick supporter?

NO.  NO.  NO. You do not, and SHOULD NOT, break the law, commit acts of violence, and especially not hurl obscenities.  Only John McCain is permitted to Speak The Profanity in Loud Tones and you are not worthy.  You have free speech rights, but not the right to break the law.  So don’t.

Can Democrats and Independents become maverick supporters too?

ABSOLUTELY! In fact, I encourage it.  It is one of the tenets of John McCain to cross the aisle and play nice with the other side, and I, as his humble and slightly overwhelmed student, will do no less.  You are more than welcome to submit comments to the maverick news, suggestions in the maverick email, and otherwise enjoy this maverick yank site.

In the spirit of John McCain, I hope that you choose to follow his tireless maverick example, and become part of this new cutting edge paradigm in maverick political support.  I welcome you here, and invite you to return any time you wish, because I’m just as inclusive as he is.

Didn’t this cost him the presidency?

No, he did that all by himself.

Won’t this cost him his Senate seat?

I’m pretty sure he won’t need my help for that, either. He’s going to get it anyway.

Won’t this spin off into maverick support for other candidates?

Yes, other candidates will demonstrate their desire for maverick supporters as John McCain did by supporting and voting with him, or acting like him.  If they do, feel free to give them their well deserved share of maverick support too.  They have chosen the right path, and wish to bask in the maverick greatness of John McCain.  They too deserve nothing less than the best maverick support you can offer them.

Unfortunately, I can’t start any more yank sites about other politicians, because I’m too busy being John McCain’s Bestest #1 Maverick Supporter in the Whole Wide World.  Lesser politicians are not worthy of my maverick adulation, because no one is like John McCain.

What if other candidates won’t follow his brilliant maverick example?

Then they are not worthy of your maverick support, and unfit to even grovel on all fours in the shadow of John McCain and hear him Speak The Profanity in Loud Tones at them relentlessly.  They deserve nothing more than your vanilla, ordinary support.  Let them suffer the despair of constant re-election until they break down, cry, and beg to be yanked into The Way of the Maverick, John McCain.

Won’t this annoy him or his staff?

I know they love me, even if they disagree.  Vehemently.

Why are you using the word ‘maverick’ so often?

Because John McCain likes it.  He enjoys it when the media describes him that way, and it is the least I can do to satisfy so small a whim as the desire to be called a maverick.  He wishes to hear it, and so you will speak it when you are being his untiring maverick supporter.

Some suggestions:

Don’t forget to use the word or one of its derivatives profusely when he, his staff, or his traditional supporters compliment you in codespeak.  You’ll know when they compliment you in codespeak when they become condescending, get loud, and/or Speak The Profanity in Loud Tones at you relentlessly. Be assured, they’re just lulling their opposition into a false sense of security, a tactic they used to great effect during the Presidential race. Deep down, I know they’ll appreciate it.

Aren’t you garnering some petty, puerile, personal gain and satisfaction from all this?

Why yes, I am.  As John McCain has lead and taught by example, his greatest tenet is that “It’s all about me”.  Therefore, I will abide by it as his humble and slightly overwhelmed student, and garner as much personal satisfaction and gain from being a maverick supporter of his as I can.  You, as unworthy petitioners to the greatness of being his other maverick supporters, should seek to do the same for yourselves.

Just remember the answer I gave you when you asked if you would have to break the law:  NO.  NO.  NO.  Never do it.