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Why won't Glenn Greenwald stop with this obsessive maverick-bashing? Maverick-Americans like McCain are often treated like idiotic pretenders to real statesmanship and leadership when in fact they're just misunderstood.
Is it so hard to try to accept McCain as he is, instead of always cutting him down? He's a maverick — a loner who treads dark paths in the bitter cold of unforgiving solitude. He's a cowboy, and he rides those trails alone.
So what if in his rambling travels he sometimes seems to depart from all reason? So what if, to our uncomprehending eyes, he seems to defy the very concept of coherent identity? That is something that only people in his minority group understand, and we need to respect that.
Don't all those p.c. liberals say you should never argue with someone's stated identity? Well, McCain's identity is as a Maverick. He states it over and over, and when he gets tired he has his friends state it over and over for him. So I think that's pretty clear!
Let's accept him for who he is, and if today he wants to flay Bush's skin from his body and put it on as a costume, but tomorrow he just wants to flay Bush, and the next day he wants to marry Bush's wife and adopt his children, who are we to judge?
Or is it only okay to discriminate against Maverick-Americans, just not women and minorities? For shame, for shame.
