it doesn't matter if its true or not, you know how the media works.
Yes, how the media work: whoever becomes the new Republican leader will be equated with Hitler within 12 months. Time Magazine will have him on a black and red cover with the title, "Some say he's the Antichrist," and smoke and barbed wire in the background.
But it does matter whether it's true, and it matters whether conservatives toss their own overboard at the slightest threat. The liberal media will attack anyone they fear.