The McCain gambit

From The American Thinker:

Just as Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is the Republicans' favorite Democrat (now that Zell Miller is retired from the Senate), Arizona Senator John McCain is the Democrats' favorite Republican. McCain's selective opposition to domestic policy initiatives of the Bush administration and his challenge to the President for the nomination in 2000 secured his firmest base, the nation's mainstream political writers and broadcasters. Whether McCain would have held that support against Al Gore in the 2000 general election is unclear, but he was certainly the MSM's choice against then-Governor Bush in the 2000 race's primary season.