McCain Loses His Base (The Media) With His VP Pick

[kpete]

You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' ...

I think TPM Reader JL may be on to something ...

Just a thought, and I doubt I'm the first to think it. Watching that surprising video of Cambell Brown taking Tucker Bounds to the cleaners', I wondered if perhaps what I was really seeing was a mainstream press that is furious with McCain for having embarrassed them. Even if Palin drops out by the end of the week, and Pawlenty or Romney or whomever gets on board and we begin take two of the entire thing, I can't imagine that the press will have retained their abiding love of McCain. After all, they're the ones who nurtured his straight-talkin'-maverick image, and now he has appeared to throw it in their faces. They probably had reporting packages ready to go for all of the other VP possibilities, and nothing for Palin. So it wasn't just the GOP brass McCain was flipping off with this pick--it was his "base," the media. My overall sense of yesterday's coverage was that covering him just wasn't any fun anymore. And those feelings might well last into November.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/212411.php

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Ironically, Bloomberg news had a similar article

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=as77Ueg2JfbQ

It's like a couple of them smell the shift in the winds and are switching sides. This after gushing all weekend.

[bethling]

2. Maybe now they'll start covering his blunders - nt

nt

[redqueen]

3. Oh bullshit they're still not calling her Bridge to Nowhere lie a lie,

and they're still not saying bupkis about his record on Veterans' issues.

They're still as devoted to the GOP as ever.