Rather than rally conservative talk show hosts to McCain, it will just give them more ammunition to support why they didn’t like him in the first place.
Talk show hosts love it when they go against conventional wisdom and are eventually vindicated. That’s a way they prove that they are original thinkers.
If so, it is all a meaningless charade. I am on record predicing that the talk show criticism for McCain is all for show. It is not to be taken seriously. It is mainly a response to appease their angry listeners. Hannity, Laura, and even Rush will shamelessly rally behind the GOP establishment candidate in a few months, as they always do. This is a little game that takes places periodically.