Oh please, these same liberal pundits were calling McCain ‘racist’ just like every other Republican Presidential nominee back in 2008.
McCain was (and remained) every liberal’s favorite Republican except when he ran against Obama. Even then, the hostility towards him from the media was all a charade and he knew it, since the normally vindictive and petty McCain had hardly a bad word to say about Obama in 2008. They both knew that it was a game that they play to create the illusion of “choice”, because in the end they were on the same side with the same agenda.