Hewitt On McCain

This is the full article. I think it's really interesting, and gives some more depth to the issues I briefly mentioned in the previous post about Senator John McCain. Here are some key excerpts that he brings up:

What will decide this thing? The Luntz focus groups on Sunday and Thursday night which went overwhelmingly to Romney and Thompson respectively tell us what Republican voters prize most of all: Fight in their candidates. This may be because of what we know lies ahead in the fall, when not just an energized Dem nominee assaults them day after day, but when Soros et al unleash their tens of millions and the leftie nutroots scream BushCo and Halliburton at the top of their virtual lungs 24/7. The GOP knows it will need a fighter full of energy and optimism who will both argue the case for Reagan conservatism and do so with the graciousness and charm that will be a sharp contrast with the angry left.

And then this parting shot:

A GOP vote for McCain is a vote for a shattered base and a desultory campaign in the fall. It is a vote for lecture after lecture on global warming, campaign finance reform, and the bridge to nowhere. It is a vote for an old warrior way past his prime and the prospect of three debates against Barack Obama in which the age and energy gap goes unremarked upon while devastatingly obvious.

What I can't understand is how Michael Medved - whom I normally hold in regard with respect to his political opining - can so heartily embrace McCain as his candidate. Then again, there have been several issues where he and I have departed far from one another in political philosophy. Anyway...it's hard to read anything by Hewitt without thinking that Romney doesn't still have an excellent shot at the candidacy.