The media wanted McCain BADLY to win the nomination, because they knew against Obama, McCain stood NO chance of winning. So they propped up McCain, saying what a wonderful man he is, I remember the press coverage for McCain during the primaries, boy they kissed his ass. When he won the nomination, Obama was already getting the drapes for the White House ordered, but when McCain chose Sarah, the media did not see that one coming, they were stunned, they thought “Oh My God, McCain might actually win” so they did whatever it took to destroy her. Remember this, the media loves picking our candidates, they pick them, the pick the ones who are the least threat to their agenda, prop them up, say how great they are, then when they are nominated boy oh boy do they bring them down
More to the point, they wanted virtually ANY of the leading RINO candidates that ran last year. Rudy would’ve been eviscerated for his Social liberalism (and the “in drag” pics wouldn’t have helped, let alone the three marriages), Huckster as the backwoods Southern buffoon, McCain (obvious), and Slick Willard (flipflopper, disastrous tenure as Governor, and belonging to a church that excluded Blacks from leadership until almost 1980 - which would’ve been a nightmare to excuse or justify for us). Notice the one candidate they DIDN’T want was Fred Thompson, and they did their best to ignore his candidacy. It’s too bad we didn’t have other first tier Conservatives to run last year, all but Fred took a pass. The liberal RINOs sure didn’t... and they damn well should’ve.