John McCain and Sarah Palin’s new favorite term, “Maverick,” actually has a history behind the name. The name came to mean “anyone who didn’t bear another’s brand,” after Samuel August Maverick who was known for not branding his cattle in Texas during the 1800s. Maverick’s posterity, still carrying on the Maverick tradition in Texas, is not happy about the adoption of the name. Terrellita Maverick complains McCain “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... He’s a Republican. He’s branded.”
She has a great point, the dictionary defines a maverick as a “lone dissenter or a politician who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates” and included synonyms such as: nonconformist, independent, loner. One who subscribes to a particular party does not seem to fit in this category, no matter how often they stand up to “the good old boys.” Photo and story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05schwartz.html?em
She has a great point, the dictionary defines a maverick as a “lone dissenter or a politician who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates” and included synonyms such as: nonconformist, independent, loner. One who subscribes to a particular party does not seem to fit in this category, no matter how often they stand up to “the good old boys.” Photo and story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05schwartz.html?em
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