the McCain route, part two… more contemporaneously
I forgot Zell Miller (and really, why would I remember him?)Â There’s not much more that needs to be said about him — blah blah blah, roll out a “Duel”, roll out a “Spit Balls???” — except that perhaps he fits this John McCain category even moreso than John McCain.
His cohort in Republican Party Convention speaking, Joseph Lieberman, does not fill the bill — he’s always been what he’s always been — his starting point at tilting gratuitously at his party has seen only a slight up-tik, and in order to qualify it would have to be even more habitual.
Also, somewhat counter-intuitively, Sarah Palin — but she may fit a different category — when going “National” sharpens disengages your parochial governing concerns — in a way like Zell Miller, except perhaps huing closer in line with some of her partisan line.