Republican’s Over-Use of Term MAVERICK

The term "maverick" has been used dozens, perhaps hundreds of times by the Republicans to describe McCain. With all of their wonderful vetting skills, I doubt if any of them realize that originally, "maverick" means a fat old cow.

But then, with all the bullshit flying around, it stands to reason that there is a cow around here somewheres, by crackie (nothing cosmopolitan about me, nosiree).

MAVERICK: Surname derived from a vocabulary word, originally meaning "unbranded range animal," transferred to forename use. It was the surname of Samuel Maverick (1803-1870), a Texas cattleman who refused to brand his cattle. The word's use as a forename first began in the early 1990s after the release of the movie "Maverick" starring Mel Gibson. The sense of "unconventional person," is first recorded in 1886, and seems to have developed by way of the notion of being "independent, masterless."