lots of people are writing about senator mccain's sudden disavowal of the maverick label. what i find weird about it is not that the senator would try to change his earlier image, or that his present statements might not be consistent with what he has said before (both of those things are pretty common for any politician). what i find so weird is that he seems completely unaware that other people would notice that his "I never considered myself a maverick" statement is completely at odds with literally hundreds of public pronouncements he has made in the past, many of which are on tape.
that makes so sense at all to me. and yet, a politician doing just this sort of thing is not all that rare either. it's so common it's what practically keeps jon stewart in business.
