Mattel Retires Maverick Barbie

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
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It’s a new election year, so we get a new incarnation of John McCain. And like the various iterations of Barbie, there’s really no accounting for how consistent, or inconsistent, each new McCain persona is with the previous ones. (What would Astronaut Barbie make of tramp-stamp Barbie?)

The 2010 version of John McCain comes with a new tagline: “I never considered myself a maverick.” Whoa, indeed. We bid farewell to the maverick who never considered himself a maverick with a video tribute from the biggest fan of his mavericky-ness: himself. Watch.

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