Maverick To McCain: I Know Mavericks. Mavericks Are Relatives Of Mine. You’re No Maverick
Samuel Augustus Maverick was known in Texas in the 1800’s for not branding his cattle. Hence, unbranded cattle were known as “Mavericks” and eventually a “maverick” was anyone who didn’t bear another’s brand.
Now, Terralitta Maverick, an 82-year-old great granddaughter of the original maverick, is upset that her name as been appropriated by John McCain.
“I’m just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick,” said Terrellita Maverick, 82, a San Antonio native who proudly carries the name of a family that has been known for its progressive politics since the 1600s, when an early ancestor in Boston got into trouble with the law over his agitation for the rights of indentured servants.
Terrillita’s father, Fontaine Maury Maverick, two-term congressman and mayor of San Antonio lost a bid for re-election when he was branded a Communist by conservatives. He was so frustrated by bureaucratic doublespeak that he coined the word “gobbledygook”.
Considering the family’s long history of association with liberalism and progressive ideals, it should come as no surprise that Ms. Maverick insists that John McCain, who has voted so often with his party, “is in no way a maverick, in uppercase or lowercase.”
“It’s just incredible – the nerve! – to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, ‘Oh, my God, he said it again.’ “
“He’s a Republican,” she said. “He’s branded.”
People get worked up over the silliest things. Get worked up about something important, like the economy, gas prices ect.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Frank Marshall Davis
October 7th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
For Robert Blair and the other fools that try to say Ayers is no big deal…a little education for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fC0jAi2gc
October 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Yeah!
It’s amazing!
Did you know that Barack Obama ran the whole operation for Weather Underground when he was only eight years old, and he did it all while wearing his little footie pajamas?
October 7th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Hey lefty, you got a picture of that??
October 7th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Gayle,
Only in my mind.
I LOVE little kids in footies, though.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?swf=http%3A/
October 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
lol lefty
October 7th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Alan, I have not read what you wrote above. I just want to tell you that I am incredibly sad for you. Your life seems so empty! My heart goes out to you, cuz you seem to struggle with everything that you talk about. I do hope one day you can find something, anything, to believe in, outside the democratic party! If you are really honest with yourself, you don’t have anything of substance in your life. Alan, I hope you find substance. Life is more than just politics!
October 7th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Mavericks were poorly running automobiles, too. The transmissions were weak and the engines tended to knock. The interrior of the auto tended to split open easily and the foam padding didn’t smell all that well.
The electirical system tended to short out with the first heavy rain. Oh, and the standard stereos were tinny.
I don’t think we should send these cars to the capital, even if one is stuck in the congress…..and may be there a very long long time…
October 7th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Its a joke. nobody is named “Maverick” and even if they were, anyone who claimed the name for themselves would be seen as a total idiot.
Its like saying someone is named Cool and they automatically, wait their great grandparents earned the name Cool by doing something. now their great grandchildren own the name Cool and will be the final arbiters of who is cool and who isnt.
Or I could petition the court and change my name to Cool (which is better than Parts Galore) and then say my ancestors were the original cool’s and now Im in charge of who is cool and who isnt.
If we had people from the 1800s they would vote for McCain 100% to 1% for Obama, and there is a 1% margin of error.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:13 am
We’ve sure come a long way, huh, Bradley… fancy allowin’ a nigra in a race with a white man…
October 8th, 2008 at 12:24 am
my responses dont always show up. post something and it doesnt make it…
its a leftwing conspiracy to silence the truth.
Yes John its amazing that a Negro has been nominated for president. Its sad that its Hussein Obama instead of someone worthy for the job.
Obama is a terrorist sympathizer who worked for Bill Ayers and worked for Acorn and is closely tied to the black radical movement. His spokesperson didnt have the guts nor intellectual honesty to admit details of Obama’s real past.
Obama is a disgrace to the Negro community, not because he is a far left liberal but because of his ties to Ayers and others. Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist who like Timothy McVeigh had radical views and acted on them, bombing “Americas infrastructure”
Obama is a caricature, a deceiver, a radical and terrorist sympathizer. The fact he GOT nominated shows that America is not the racist nation he and his minions claim, the Jesse Jackson reparationist types and extortion artists.
Obama is far more radical than Jesse Jackson, he got the nomination, and that infuriated and jealousificated Jackson; but Obama is like a younger more eloquent Jesse Jackson but with more extremist views and goals
October 8th, 2008 at 1:00 am
I wonder what Saddam Hussein thinks of sharing his name with Barack, oh wait thanks to the Republican party and our fine military we will never get to hear his opinion on the subject.
October 8th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Wow! The last time I heard anyone use the word “Negro” was in the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”. Well Bradley, guess who’s coming to the White House? Yep, you betcha!
October 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Harlan is there anything wrong with the word Negro?
what is your favorite way to refer to such non white people?
October 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Harlan, you’re a stitch.
Speaking of Saddam Hussein, my husband talked to one of our local Republican crackpots who alleges…get ready…
That Saddam Hussein is still alive. Yep. She says, the lynch mob hung a lookalike (or a dummy) and Saddam’s still waiting out the war, probly toasting s’mores over a campfire with Osama bin Laden or playing tennis with him in Crawford.
Fortunately, she DOES believe that man walked on the moon. At least I think she does. I might slip it into the conversation sometime, just to make sure.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
No Bradley, there’s nothing “wrong” with the word Negro, just as there is nothing “wrong” with the word Caucasian, but if I referred to you as a Caucasian wouldn’t you think that I was a little out of touch?
October 8th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
We as the american people are lost and miseducated on true values and purpose of life.We get too caught up in things that don’t benifit or promote our well being as humans.The more we stay stuck on RACE,the futher we set OUR childens of the future behind,no wonder other countries take us as joke. It’s unbelieviable that racism control our mentality,thats remarkable.Once again our brainwashed mindset have missed the mark,thanks to those brilliant people before us,who cursed this country with it’s ideology of what a human being should be.I pray that our future will be smarter and determine to kill that demoniac spirit.They will, as soon as we get our stupid selfaggrandizing out the way and let them be humans.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:19 am