John McCain is going nowhere. Not sure what they predicted in 2000 and if that was the case - he was wrong on both sides.
The media and the pundits can fawn over John McCain all they want, it just isn't going to happen no matter how much and how hard they try to make it happen.
IMHO MSM are only fawning over McCain to convince him to run, if he does and especially if he horrors above horrors got the nomination - the skeltons would come out of cupboard by his so called media friends.