Nope. McCain probably has the best chance of any Republican to win in a general election, but he'll get beaten in the Republican nomination. Some conservative will clean his clock. His best shot would've been to turn coat and run as Veep on the Kerry ticket in '04.
Nonsense. McCain is a media darling, and he would remain so right up to the moment he were to have the Republican nomination for president. Were he to become (Heaven forefend) the nominee, he would, in the eyes of journalism, at that moment become the village idiot.To say nothing of the fact that in that same instantthe Keating Five scandal would be resurrected as the only significant aspect of John McCain's political career.