Article: The Media Finally Treat John McCain Like a Republican Again

Examining the GOP Maverick's Once-Unexamined Life

Last Wednesday, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's decade-long honeymoon as the favorite Republican of the mainstream media came to a crashing halt. In a remarkable coincidence, Wednesday marked approximately one week of McCain's feeling so assured of the Republican nomination that he stopped attacking conservatives and began attacking Democratic Senators Barack Obama (111.) and Hillary Clinton (N.Y.).

Welcome Home, John

McCain, long a maverick and the infallible, unassailable, warhero engineer of the "Straight Talk Express," is now just another Republican-an obstacle to the Democratic Party to be denigrated, besmirched, harassed, ...

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