i think she's wrong about the media picking McCain... the media all said he was dead an unviable months ago.
with almost no money left, he got back in the race because of the voters.. not the media. the media thought Romney was going to be our guy and focused and him and where is he now?
with Ann and Rush and Hannity and almost ALL the conservative talking heads bursting a blood vessel over McCain, and so many of us not being all that in favor of him... voters still got him to where he is now.
i think the media is trying desparately to pick the candidates and the public is having none of it.
conservatives realize we are at war, its no time to be trying out new people with no military experience.
McCain is the choice of a lot of liberal and Democrat cross overs. Plus he had a lot of help from the Huckster.
I really think McCain is the Republican Machine candidate. Probably payback for not doing the Jeffords Jump and/or not running as Kerry's running mate. And he did get a lot of chat up in the media in the wake of winning the crossover vote in NH.
And, as we can see from his continuing to throw conservatives under the bus, it is always a dangerous business to try and placate a narcissist. Probably I will vote for him in November but I don't really support him in any tangible way. It's like if you hate potato salad but that is all there is to eat and you hate German potato salad more and you're really hungry but still only can only nibble at the potato salad and all you can think is, well at least I didn't have to eat the German potato salad, I don't think I could have done that at all.
Or like the support a wet bargain brand paper towel gives compared to the strength of Bounty. When it comes to McCain, I'm the bargain brand. Not much support to begin with and if he keeps throwing conservatives under the bus....I don't know. I'm absorbing about as much of McCain as I can right now. McCain just isn't worth investing in becoming Bounty.
Of course, the happy news is, I can ignore it all and focus on things that will really matter.