Russia is defending Christians in Syria, while the U.S. is hiring Al Qaeda to murder them. McCain and Graham are apparently bitterly anti-conservative operatives in the Republican Party. Putin is hated by the left so much because has fought hard against the Stalinist Culture of death, lowering the still-high abortion rate by more than 85%, opposing radical Jihadis, and even *gasp* proselytism to homosexuality.
That said, Putin is also hated by many evangelical Americans because
(1) many believe that Orthodox might happen to become Christian, but the Orthodox Church is not Christian,
(2) Russia has opposed foreign proselytizers, chiefly Islamicist but also evangelicals, who proselytize against the Orthodox by attacking Orthodox religious beliefs as inherently and irreformably evil (see #1), especially those who promote paranoid world views, such as Scientologists, some 7th Day Adventists, etc.
(3) the cold war hysteria still sells, especially to those who think that the fall of the Soviet Union was some sort of fake-out move by the forces of Babylon.
Succinct and accurate.