Don’t bet on it ending. The media created him, and will stick it out to the end.
I don't recall GWB having much of a honeymoon. Not only were the media convinced that Gore would have been president if the Supreme Court had not "selected" Bush, but they were busy attacking Ashcroft and denouncing Bush for wanting to poison the children with arsenic. When the Florida recounts finally showed that Bush would have won Florida's electoral votes anyway, that received virtually no attention in the media.
Last summer before the election there were all kinds of rumors running rampant here at FR, but one of the more interesting ones was that a fairly-high profile staffer from one of the big three networks was intoxicated at a D.C. party and let it slip that her network was supporting Obama and wanted to see him elected not because they were enamored with him but because he and his associates were so corrupt that the network’s ratings would spike sky-high not long into his presidency.
I always wondered if there were even a kernel of truth to it.
He’s TOO BIG to fail.
That’s what they’ll say.