Bwwahhhaa!! Catch this video. The Maverick family disowns McCain!!!

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/08/moos.no.maverick.cnn

Watch Fontaine Maverick talk about John McCain being "no maverick"!!! :rofl:

You just got thrown under your own Straight Crap Express!

:patriot:

THE REAL ORIGINAL MAVERICK

Taking Back a Family Name



It didn't bother us when Ford Motor Company used the Maverick family name for their new car. We didn't care that Tom Cruise's character in Top Gun was named Maverick, and we were amused when Madonna used our name for her record label. It is part of the American vernacular. But when McCain and the media placed it in a political context, using the maverick label as the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, each and every member of this family was appalled. We continue to be.

Fontaine Maverick

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The original maverick was Maury Maverick, the grandson of Samuel Maverick, from whom the name Maverick first entered the American lexicon. Because Samuel never branded his herds, unmarked cattle became known as mavericks.

While the family name is an old one, Maury was a radical politician from San Antonio, Texas, who who served two terms in Congress (1935-1939). There, he led a bloc of progressive Democrats who supported Roosevelt and the New Deal and even sought to push them to the left. In 1935 the Washington Herald labeled this posse of liberals “The Mavericks.”

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As supporters of the Democratic candidate Barack Obama, whose values are much closer to their family tradition, members of the Texas family oppose the co-opting of their name to promote the current Republican Presidential ticket.



More, and photos of what the real Mavericks look like:

http://www.realoriginalmaverick.com/

I actually grew up with some of the Maverick family. I can just imagine that they would be less than happy about his using the term. At least one of them was a very serious Quaker. It *is* a huge family, at this point.

BAMMMM!!

doesn't fit McLame.

Oh the irony of a person, especially a Republican, branding him/her self a Maverick.