History repeats. The media selected John McCain just like they will select Romney, only to kick him under the bus. Their right. GOP is the stupid party..
McCain won the nomination because he beat the other candidates. No one would listen when warned it would be him or Guiliani. They went on and trashed Rudi including the wholesale purge here of his supporters then flopped around bringing up absurd alternatives to McCain all of whom were roundly rejected by most Republicans. It was not the media which did all that.