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...Genial, maverick governor of South Carolina with a strong conservative record...
...page report was only made public when maverick Dutch Green Party MEP Paul van Buitenen broke the rules to put a summary on his website. Van Buitenen, whose whistle-blowing in 1999 helped bring down the entire European Commission, says the Parliament's top brass knew about the fraud for years but decided not to take any action to tighten the rules. "But so far, the Parliament has not been prepared to come forward with concrete proposals to improve the current system," he says. "The Parliament cannot claim to be the conscience of Europe while this is happening...
...with "myth buster" e-mails arguing that McCain is "pandering to the right wing," "walking in lockstep with President Bush" and "embracing the ideology he once denounced." At the same time, the liberal advocacy group Media Matters has been releasing broadsides against any journalist who dares describe the sometimes maverick McCain as a maverick...
...doing anything that appears to be pandering to people, then he's going to lose, I think some - I don't know, respect - but some people are going to question it. Because he's never pandered. At least his image is that he's never pandered. He's a maverick. He's out there on his own and he's going to ride the trail wherever it takes him, in the direction he wants to go. I wouldn't expect...
...course, the reason many of you have already seen this video is precisely because it’s Maverick saying all these things; the boy wonder from a bygone era of mixed feelings has gone off the deep end—not in back rooms and rehabilitation centers but a click away, in front of a jeering crowd of bloggers and blog-readers (formerly, “the unemployed”). This lack of privacy might be tragic if this man weren’t paid $67 million a year; maybe it still...