Maverick, as in
For a while now I’ve been wondering if McCain’s title as a “maverick” would come to mean independent, as in not affiliated with a group, or “maverick” as in reckless. The NYTimes weigns in:
The events [of the past week] reflected Mr. McCain’s frequently lurching campaign. For the past several weeks, as the polls have shown Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee, gaining increasing ground, Mr. McCain’s traveling road show has veered from message to message and from pumping up hostile crowds to trying to calm them down. Each news cycle seem to bring another tactic as the campaign appears to be trying anything and everything to see what might work.
Leaving room for discussion, and in less partisan-sounding language, another NYT article ends with the quote
“McCain is, in terms of ideology, somewhat hard to pigeonhole.”
