Word: maverickly
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...foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution,” McCain protests, brandishing his American Conservative Union lifetime rating of 83 percent, compared to eight percent for Sen. Barack Obama. Still, conservatives charge insubordination: The maverick pulls his punches with his Democratic opponents, yet pummels his Republican allies. To win the Right’s trust, he must fight for it, not against...
Courting moderates, McCain likens himself to Teddy Roosevelt, the Bull Moose who bucked both political parties. True, the maverick clips Republicans often: He called Donald Rumsfeld one of the worst defense secretaries in history, dubbed the federal response to Hurricane Katrina “disgraceful,” and slammed President Bush for “shirking” his duty to combat climate change...
...harsh realities of Tuesday's results may not sink McCain, who has carefully cultivated an image of being a party maverick and who polls well ahead of the Republican brand. But they do portend the possibility that the Congressional Democratic majority could grow to a size not seen since the 1980s; though it is still early in the cycle, political observers say Democrats hope to pick up one or more Senate seats and as many as a dozen more House seats. Or as Larry Sabato, a political prognosticator at the University of Virginia, put it, "Republicans have to worry that...
...senate president in 2003, a pork-barreling, wheeling-and-dealing powerhouse. Early that year, he met privately with Obama at the statehouse. Obama had passed up various statewide races but now had found one to his liking: the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Peter Fitzgerald, a quirky maverick up for re-election in 2004. If Obama were to have any hope of becoming the Democratic nominee, he would have to overcome two weaknesses exposed in 2000: shaky support among working-class blacks and the dearth of party regulars. Jones, now president after a Democratic takeover of the state senate...
...history parallels that of Israel. Born in 1924 in Vienna, he became a Zionist socialist and migrated to Palestine, escaping the Holocaust, which consumed his mother and many relatives. After the war for independence - or as Palestinians call it, al naqba, the disaster - Rubinger was too much of a maverick to be anything but a photojournalist. His first internationally published shots were of a small diplomatic incident: a patient in a Catholic hospital on the Green Line had dropped her false teeth out the window onto the Jordanian side, and after much negotiation, the nuns were allowed to cross over...