Jan Brewer Vetos Religious Freedom SB1062 Bill and Caves To Godless, White Liberals

Is it any wonder so many social conservatives in this country have lost faith in the Republican party? With losers like John McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and the 3 Arizona Republican members who caved to liberal lies and hyperbole on SB1062 and changed their mind, who needs the GOP?

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer made a statement Wednesday night declaring she already vetoed the controversial SB1062 bill that would permit state businesses to discriminate against LGBT individuals, confirming an earlier report that she was planning to veto the bill.

Advocates of the bill have argued that the bill was meant to protect people’s religious liberty, while opponents insisted it’s just the government adding on another layer of discrimination that gay people have to face in their lives.

Brewer previously pledged she would “do the right thing for Arizona,” and deferred questions by saying she had until Friday to make her decision. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce came out against the bill, as did many businesses (Apple and Marriott among them), and a number of high-profile Republicans, including both of Arizona’s GOP senators, called on Brewer to veto the bill.

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There's Already 17 Times More Coverage on Chris Christie Scandal Than in Last Six Months of IRS Scandal

NewsBusters.org:

In less than 24 hours, the big three networks have devoted 17 times more coverage to a traffic scandal involving Chris Christie than they've allowed in the last six months to Barack Obama's Internal Revenue Service controversy. Since the story broke on Wednesday that aides to the New Jersey governor punished a local mayor's lack of endorsement with a massive traffic jam, ABC, CBS and NBC have responded with 34 minutes and 28 seconds of coverage. Since July 1, these same networks managed a scant two minutes and eight seconds for the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups.

In contrast, journalists such as Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos pounced on the developing Christie story. The GMA host opened the program on Thursday by announcing, "Chris Christie in crisis. Calls at this hour for the feds to step in, investigate the explosive e-mails."

Stephanopoulos later wondered, "One of the big questions right now, how much has it hampered his White House prospects?" Guest Matt Dowd insisted that, on a scale from one to ten, the controversy was already at a "four or five."

On the CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley sounded a similar alarm: "Tonight, a potential presidential candidate caught up in scandal. E-mails show massive New Jersey traffic jams were engineered by aides to Governor Chris Christie as political payback."

  NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams immediately spun the story as a political pitfall for the possible presidential contender: "In a jam. A big problem for a man with big ambitions. Tonight, how a traffic nightmare on the world's busiest bridge has spilled into a full blown scandal with the power to damage Chris Christie's political future."

RELATED: Don Lemon Grills DNC Head: Why Is Christie Suspicious if He Denies Involvement but Not Obama?

Faux Conservative S.E. Cupp: If Chris Christie Is Involved in ‘Bridge-Gate,’ He Should ‘Resign Now’

Sounding more and more like that idiot Meghan McCain by the minute:

Via the Daily Caller, are we at this point so soon? The story about his deputy’s e-mails broke this morning; he put out the requisite shock-and-disappointment statement a few hours ago; and now here’s a righty pundit already dropping the R-bomb on him, albeit conditionally. Half the Republicans I follow on Twitter are rolling their eyes that anyone in the media could be so exercised about petty hardball played by local politicians, especially when Bob Gates is busy accusing the president of the United States of sending men to die in a war he never believed in. Christie’s not in any imminent danger.

But look — at this point, given his emphatic denials that he had anything to do with the lane closings, what’s the alternative to resigning if a smoking gun emerges proving that he did? He’s not going to stand at the podium, cop to having lied baldfaced to the world about his role in punishing the public in order to retaliate against a political enemy, and then say, “Oh well, see you tomorrow.” His whole shtick is that he’s a straight talker who tells the truths that more polished politicians are too afraid to tell. He can’t admit to having lied to protect himself and then go back to business as usual. So what’s the alternative to resignation if he gets caught red-handed? Which, I guess, is another way of saying that the odds of him getting caught red-handed are verrry low or else his denials wouldn’t be so emphatic. If he was involved, the way this was done, I assume, is Christie telling a close aide to make it happen and then the aide telling Kelly to make it happen. That gives him plausible deniability. No paper trail, no muss, no fuss. At worst, if Kelly turns on him and claims that she’s confident the order came from Christie himself, he’ll dismiss it as fingerpointing by a bad employee who’s eager to rehabilitate her rep by telling the media what it wants to hear. He wouldn’t go all-in on denials if he had reason to believe he was exposed.

As for the rest of the clip, where Cupp teases out a scenario in which Christie resigns, becomes a martyr to his supporters for doing so(?), and then rebounds by running for president anyway, I don’t know what to tell you except that Tapper’s green room must include a mini-bar. Any pol who would abuse his power for such petty, egotistical reasons, lie about it repeatedly, and then actually step down in disgrace isn’t going to be considered for the most powerful job in the world. Especially when a big chunk of his own party’s base already disdains him.

RELATED: Christie denies involvement in controversial lane closures, says was 'misled'

Police Seize White Teenage Girl from Black Legal Guardians Without Cause

Not the ideal example that racism still exists, but still:

A teenage Oklahoma hip hop dancer is still shaken after her dream trip to a Texas dance studio ended up with her in handcuffs and taken to Child Protective Services and her guardians in police custody. 

"They had nothing on us," dance instructor Emmanuel Hurd told ABCNews.com. "Instead of going the route they should have went, they took her to CPS. The only reason someone gave me was we were black and Landry was white." 

Landry Thompson, 13, has been dancing since she was 7. For the past few years, she has dreamed of traveling to Houston to dance with well-known hip hop dancer Chachi Gonzales at Planet Funk Academy. 

Over the weekend, Thompson's parents, instructor and dance partner made her dream come true. Landry flew to Houston from her Tulsa, Okla., home on Saturday and met up with Hurd, 29, and her dance partner Josiah Kelly, 22. 

The three spent the day at the dance academy and taking part in a video shoot. After wrapping and dinner, the exhausted trio stopped at a gas station around 3 a.m. to program their GPS to find their hotel, according to Hurd. He dozed off and awoke to find their car surrounded by police. 

"Everything was going amazing. It was a beautiful day .... and then everything went bad," Hurd told ABCNews.com today. 

Hurd and Kelly were pulled out of the car and police told them not to worry, they weren't be arrested, just detained, Hurd said. 

Hurd had forms from Landry's mother making him her guardian for the duration of the trip, her birth certificate and her insurance card, among other forms, which he said he tried to tell the officers. 

"[The officer] puts the handcuffs on very, very tight [and] throws me in the back and does the same to Josiah," Hurd said. "All the while I'm looking at Landry. She's terrified." 

Landry, still in the car, said she called her mother. 

"I was crying. I tried to put the police on the phone with my mom and they said they didn't want to," she told ABCNews.com. 

The teen said she was terrified and that the cops didn't believe she was giving them her real name, since she wasn't on the runaway list. 

Landry's mom, Destiny Thompson, said she wasn't surprised by the late-night call because rehearsals often go late into the night, but could tell something was wrong when she heard the commotion in the background and her daughter's upset voice. 

A police officer eventually took Landry's phone and spoke to her mother. 

"He got on the phone and he said, 'Are you aware your daughter is in Houston, Texas, with two black men?' And I said, 'Yes, I am aware of that,'" Destiny Thompson told ABCNews.com. "Then he started mumbling stuff about my parenting, why I would let her do that and then he proceeded to tell me the people she was with were intoxicated or on something." 

"There's no possible way these men were intoxicated, that's not how they live," the mom said. "I knew right then I had some trouble." 

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John Boehner Calls LGBT Employment Non-Discrimination Act ‘Unnecessary’

Good job by our Speaker:

Before President Barack Obama delivered his announcement on administrative fixes to the Affordable Care Act, House Speaker John Boehner held a press conference of his own. Beyond expressing his own doubts about the administration’s ability to improve Obamacare, Boehner made news by addressing the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which passed in the Senate last week but will need to pass in the House in order to become law.

“I am opposed to discrimination of any kind–in the workplace and any place else,” Boehner told reporters. But, he continued, “I think this legislation–that I have dealt with as chairman of the Education Workforce Committee long before I was back in the leadership–is unnecessary and would provide a basis for frivolous lawsuits. People are already protected in the workplace. I am opposed to continuing this.” 

Boehner previously expressed his opposition to the bill through his spokesman, but this was the first time he spoke out publicly against it.

“Listen, I understand people have different opinions on this issue, and I respect those opinions,” Boehner added. “But as someone who has worked in the employment law area for all of my years in the statehouse and all of my years here, I see no basis or no need for this.”

While Republican opponents of the bill have claimed that it’s redundant, as the law stands now, there are 29 states where someone can be fired because of their sexual orientation without any legal protections. ENDA would make that practice illegal.

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Liz Cheney’s Pro-Gay Stance Like ‘Supporting Drug Dealers’ Because One’s In Your Family

Mediaite.com:

Brian Fischer, Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association and outspoken anti-gay activist, accused new Wyoming Senatorial candidate Liz Cheney of being soft on what he calls the issue of “sodomy-based marriage” because of her sodomy-based-married sister Mary.

Yesterday, Fischer denounced Cheney’s campaign, in which she’s challenging Republican incumbent and Dick Cheney shooting buddy Mike Enzi, because she’s not anti-gay enough, no matter how (neo)conservative she may be on a host of other issues. On Thursday he wondered if the entire Cheney line had been compromised on gay marriage thanks to Mary. (Cheney père’s conservative views make an exception for the support of gay marriage as well.)

“That complicates things for a lot of people if they have somebody in their family that is homosexual, they think they’re obligated then to support the homosexual agenda,” Fischer said. “Well, that’s just absurd. If you’ve got a bankrobber in the family, that doesn’t mean you automatically have to support bank robbing as a lifestyle choice. If you’ve got a drug dealer in the family, that doesn’t automatically mean that you’re going to support drug dealing as a profession.”

This is not the first time Fischer has compared homosexuality to bank robbing, or shoplifting, or drug dealing.

“So it’s an absurd argument,” Fischer continued, “but it has a pretty strong emotional appeal. And that may have affected Dick Cheney’s view of same sex marriage, and it may well have affected Liz Cheney’s view of same sex marriage.”

Incidentally, having a bankrobber in the family doesn’t always end poorly.

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Lame New York Republicans Cave To Liberal Governor Andrew Cuomo And Allow Gay Marriage In New York

HuffPo.com:

Gay couples and proponents of gay rights have a reason to celebrate tonight, as the New York State Senate has passed a bill that allows same sex marriage.


New York will be the sixth, and largest, state in the union to adopt gay marriage. The bill will take effect 30 days after governor Andrew Cuomo signs it into law.


The decision, which passed 33-29, was the culmination of weeks of contentious debate and negotiations between Governor Cuomo and the GOP-controlled Senate. After the bill passed in the Assembly, it was unclear if the bill had secured enough votes to pass in the Senate. When a few notable undecideds joined the cause --including Republican Roy McDonald who famously defended his decision, saying "fuck it, I don't care what you think. I'm trying to do the right thing" -- the scale in favor of gay marriage seemed to tip.

New York Republicans had the power to stop this. But they caved. Not only to a liberal governor who put unprecedented pressure on them to pass this immoral act, but the radically-leftist media here who literally begged, pressured and smeared them to get it done.

Homosexuality is an immoral, behavioral choice. It is up and down wrong. The super-rich and powerful gay lobbyists in this country knew full-well going in that getting New York to approve same-sex marriage would go a big way towards pushing their agenda forward, while further destroying the moral fabric of this country. Yet, Republican Senate had a chance to stop this from happening and they blew it...bigtime. Each one of the four GOP heads who bowed down to Andrew Cuomo here deserves to lose their job as through their vote they not only spat on marriage, but in the face of their constituents.

Yeah, It Was Pretty Stupid For Conservatives To Go After Rapper Common

Sometimes, conservatives really do show a habit of stepping in their own way. I mean, after Barry finally releases his full birth certificate for the world to see and the dumb Birther nonsense died down, why would conservatives want to go anywhere near race? Again, there's so much to criticize Barry about regarding his utter fail of a presidency without going there (or even giving people a chance to think you're going there). I mean, Common as the new Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Really?!? C'mon man, do your research.

As a longtime fan of hip-hop, I can safely attest to the fact that Common is not Reverend Wright in any, way, shape or form. So he's "supported" a couple of alleged cop killers in his rhymes--so what? A lot of rappers have and a quick understanding of hip-hop, urban culture and the polemics within the circle would give one a clear reason why. Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal have long been propped up by the black liberation movement as politic activists--that's common knowledge, so therefore many young urban youth lean on them, read their works, challenge what they feel are unjust themes, etc. I can imagine that Common, a rapper who really didn't become "political" until midway through his career, switched up his lyrics as an attestment to not only his own creativity, but record sales and because of the what he was learning from the different people he surrounded himself with--that's what artists often do. And then suddenly overnight Common went from a "fun", lyrically adept rapper to a "conscious rapper"--a title, judging from his interviews, he's never been too comfortable with.

That said, even with his newfound "knowledge" it's not like Common is or was seeking to start some movement, much less open the doors to a revolution or doing speeches around the country telling people how much he hated America and how Blacks people need to rise up and overthrow the government. An angry, black activist Common is not. And anyone who did their research should've known that. Then too, if you're going to go after a non-threat like Common, you better do your research first and find out who other Presidents have invited to the White House in the past. I mean, Eazy-E? Wow.

My guess is that Michelle Obama invited Common to the WH for no other reason than they're both Chicago so she was long familiar with his music. There, that's all. Really now, inviting Common to the WH is not going to be the difference in any election. None. And conservatives making such a huge deal about Common's invite was just straight-up dumb.

Sarah Palin Is Still Bitter About Katie Couric

Instead of letting Katie Couric's fall for grace speak for itself, Sarah Palin, still showing signs that she remains bitter about a 3-year-old question that a 5th grader could answer, felt the need to throw some childish jabs at The Perky One:

As Katie Couric gets set to leave CBS News after five years in the anchor chair, it doesn't appear as if Sarah Palin will be sending any flowers.


Appearing on Fox News Tuesday, Palin mocked the CBS newswoman who told People Magazine she is looking forward to a new position that will facilitate "multi-dimensional storytelling."


"Yeah, and I hear that she wants to now engage in more 'multi-dimensional story telling' versus I guess just the 'straight on, read into the, that teleprompter screen story telling,'" Palin said. "More power to her. I wish her well in her - 'multi-dimensional story telling.'"


Palin has repeatedly made clear she is still no fan of Couric, who's interview with Palin produced one of the most memorable political foibles of the 2008 presidential campaign.


In a series of interviews with Couric authorized by the McCain campaign, Palin stumbled over a number of questions, most memorably when asked, "When it comes to establishing your world view…what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read?"


Palin appeared unable to name a single publication – a performance for which she was much maligned – and later said she found the question insulting, as well as emblematic of a liberal slant in the mainstream media.

Yes, Katie Couric was never a credible journalist to begin with. And yes, as yet another rich, liberal elite fronting as a "reporter", Couric most likely did come with an agenda when she interviewed Palin in 2008. But really how hard is it to answer somebody when they ask about what kind of stuff you read? I'm sorry, but I saw the interview and in no way did I see Couric try to trick or pull a fast one on Palin. Bottom line, there's no excuse for anybody over 7 years old, much less a potential vice-president, to not have the ability to answer that question. Palin screwed up and it's sad to see that all these years later she remains so bitter over it.

All Bets Are Off: Idiot Christine O'Donnell Says Her Influences Include God And Gloria Steinem

CNN.com:

In a recent interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Christine O'Donnell listed both God and Gloria Steinem as sources of inspiration and influence when times get tough on the campaign trail.

The interview was conducted by CBN's The Brody File on Friday at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware and is posted on CBN's website.

O'Donnell cited a double standard she believes is being applied to women, specifically conservative women who choose to run for office. "I don't feel it because I don't watch the news. (Laughs) No. I do feel it. There's certainly a double standard and I don't often quote Gloria Steinem but she said you can look at a double standard if they wouldn't attack the male opponent that way and there's no doubt that they wouldn't say the things they're saying about me, they wouldn't do the things that they're doing if I weren't a woman. I'm not whining but there certainly is a double standard especially when it comes to conservative woman."

O'Donnell then delved into faith stating, "God is the reason that I'm running. If I didn't believe that there were a cause greater than myself worth fighting for, if I didn't believe that it takes a complete dying of self to make things right in this election cycle I would not be running and when you die to yourself you rely on a power greater than yourself so prayer is what's gotten us all through."

Gloria Steinem? Really now? One of the most radically-liberal and divisive figures on teh Left? A woman whose done nothing but set back women's  by continuously play the "victim" card? A woman whose smeared conservative women over and over and over again is one of your influences?!?

Meg Whitman And Jerry Brown Debate Proper Use Of The Word ‘Whore’

Mediaite.com:

Meg Whitman took some time off from defending herself against (questionable) charges of mistreatment from former housekeeper Nicky Diaz to educate opponent Jerry Brown on the proper time and place to use the word ‘whore.’


During last night’s gubernatorial debate Jerry Brown apologized again for getting caught on an answering machine in a conversation with an aide who to referred to Meg Whitman as a “whore.” At the time Brown responded: “Well, I’m going to use that…It proves you’ve cut a secret deal to protect the pensions.”

Meg Whitman was not interested in his apology, however, saying the citizens of California deserved better! “I think every Californian and especially women know exactly what’s going on here, and that is a deeply offensive term to women.” 

Oh yeah? Well, inquired Brown, what about Whitman’s chairman Pete Wilson who “called the Congress whores?” Shouldn’t he be admonished? Brown was greeted with an eye roll. Said Whitman: “You know better than that, Jerry, that’s a completely different thing.” Boooo, says the audience (in response to Whitman). This year’s election season, brought to you by witches, ‘brainwashing’ homophobes and now, apparently, whores.

Yeah, that response from Whitman was pretty lame.Using "whore" is wrong is all cases, unless....you're really a whore.

More Americans Wrongly Believe Obama Is A Muslim

Anyone who thinks Barry's a Muslim is really stupid.

Chris Wallace Wants To Know Why GOP Supports Bush Tax Cuts But Not Unemployment Benefits

Mediaite.com:

On Fox News Sunday yesterday Chris Wallace demonstrated once again that is not willing to jump on board the Republican talking points wagon all willy nilly. Wallace pressed Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) yesterday on why the GOP seems so adamant about keeping President Obama from extending unemployment benefits without being able to pay for it first, but they want to extend the Bush tax cuts for free, as it were.

Pence essentially side-stepped the issue eventually saying, after Wallace wouldn’t let the topic slide, that the tax cuts encourage people to spend and therefore are good for the economy.

It's times like this, when we see Republicans showing blatant hypocrisy on key issues, that the "Party of No" label takes on some credibility.

RELATED: Obama Calls For Extension Of Jobless Benefits, Criticizes Republicans

Republicans Kill Democrats Jobs Bill And Jobless Aid Extension

YahooNews.com:

Republicans on Thursday defeated Democrats' showcase election-year jobs bill, including an extension of weekly unemployment benefits for millions of people out of work more than six months.

The 57-41 vote fell three votes short of the 60 required to crack a GOP filibuster, delivering a major blow to President Barack Obama and Democrats facing big losses of House and Senate seats in the fall election.

The rejected bill would have provided $16 billion in new aid to states, preserving the jobs of thousands of state and local government workers and providing what White House officials called an insurance policy against a double-dip recession. It included dozens of tax breaks sought by business lobbyists and tax increases on domestically produced oil and on investment fund managers.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs accused Republicans of blocking a commonsense economic package aimed at helping Americans suffering in the recession. "The president has been clear: Americans should not fall victim to Republican obstruction at a time of great economic challenge for our nation's families," Gibbs said in a statement. "The president will continue to press Congress to pass this bill and bring this relief that's critical to our economic recovery."

It really boils down to this for the GOP: you can't whine about Obama/Reid/Pelosi doing little about jobs in this country while taking away unemployment benefits from the millions who need it. The Party of No? Maybe.

Florida GOP Candidate Dan Fanelli Is A Certified Idiot

I don't believe for a second that most Republicans are racist, but any steps the GOP makes to reject leftwing hyperbole that equats them to not caring about the interests of minorities are damaged by idiots like Doug Fanelli. To think, in the era of Bernie Madoff I'd be more worried dealing with the old, white guy:

In the spot, which ran over the weekend on a Fox affiliate in central Florida, Fanelli stands between a middle-aged white man and a younger, swarthy fellow. "Does this look like a terrorist?" he asks, gesturing towards the white man. Then, pointing to the darker dude, he adds: "Or this?"

"It's time to stop this political correctness in the invasion of our privacy," Fanelli says, an apparent call for racial profiling in the searching of those deemed to be potential terrorists.

In an interview, I asked Fanelli if the message of the spot was that darker people are more likely to be terrorists.


He said it wasn't, claiming that the ad's point was that people from countries like Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Syria "require a higher level of security."

"You can be light and from those countries," he said, adding that the actor who played the terrorist in the commercial agreed with him.

I expect MSNBC to have a field day with this one and rightfully so.

Hawaii Is Done With The Obama "Birther" Nonsense

LATimes.com:

A brand-new chapter dawns in the birther controversy over President Obama's hidden birth certificate.

The Hawaii legislature has now officially passed a measure that would allow state officials to legally ignore each month's dozens of repeated requests by persons or organizations seeking to see the infant Obama's actual birth certificate.

For personal privacy reasons the certificate resides under government lock and key in Hawaii and, as is his right, Obama has never authorized its release.

That's a refusal that has only inflamed conspiracy theorists who theorize that if it's really legit, what's Obama's problem with disclosing it? The repeated non-response of spokesmen has been that's a silly issue.

Nearly three years ago at The Ticket's request, the presidential campaign of Barack Hussein Obama released a copy of his Certificate of Live Birth, which we promptly published right here.

In the ensuing months, however, that proved insufficient evidence for those who believe the twice-sworn 44th president might possibly maybe could have been born in Kenya, which could mean that he wasn't born an American even though his Kansas-born mother was American, which then still conceivably might possibly mean that Obama is an illegitimate president, as is, then, everything he's done since Jan. 20, 2009, they hope.

They want to see the real document.

Of course, while conservatives remember that it was Hillary Clinton who actually started this whole "Birther" stuff, the fact that the GOP (i.e. Michael Steele) has allowed the fringe elements on the Right to grab onto it as hard as they have is just hard to watch. Leave it alone people, the fact that Barry is hovering around 47% approve is enough to let you know what people think about where the country is heading.

Anderson Cooper Smacks Down Arizona GOP Birther

Idiots like Mr. Ash feed right into the race-baiters on the Left. If the GOP wants to stop Barry from getting a 2nd term they must move to disassociate themselves from their fringe base.

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Bill O’Reilly Takes Sen. Tom Coburn To The Woodshed For Criticizing Fox News

Mediaite.com:

Bill O'Reilly had Senator Tom Coburn on his show to address derisive comments he made last week towards Fox News. Coburn had told constituents upset with the recently passed health care reform that “the intention is not to put any one in jail. That makes for good TV news on FOX.” O’Reilly pushed back hard, insisting that nobody on FNC has ever said “you’re going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance” Well, he’s wrong.

Senator Coburn’s comments made some news when, particularly coming off similar comments from conservative David Frum, who claimed that “Fox News…has an interest In marginalizing the GOP.” At the time we asked if this was the start of a larger trend of GOP officials distancing themselves from Fox News.

Well not only has that not become a trend, but Coburn was effectively taken to the wood shed for his comments by Bill O’Reilly. The civil discussion was spirited at times, but O’Reilly’s primary point was that nobody on Fox News has claimed that not following health care would result in prison time:

“We researched to find if anyone on Fox News ever said you’re going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance…nobody’s ever said it…so it seems to be what you did was you used Fox News as a whipping boy when we didn’t qualify there.”

John McCain Says He's No Maverick

CNN.com:

Play word association with the name "John McCain" and "maverick" is certain to pop up.

After all, McCain's presidential campaign repeatedly dubbed the Arizona Republican "the original maverick" and late last month McCain's former running mate, Sarah Palin, urged a crowd in Tucson to "send the maverick back to the Senate!"

But there's only one problem: McCain, who faces a difficult primary challenge from the right, says he's no maverick.

"I never considered myself a maverick," the senator told Newsweek this week. "I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities."

McCain faces a primary challenge from former Rep. J.D. Hayworth and has come under criticism for being too moderate on a variety of issues, including immigration. Several leading Tea Party activists in Arizona have decided not to endorse McCain or Hayworth, criticizing both of their records while serving in Congress.

Despite what you've told us in the past....pander, John. Pander.

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