Speaking to your first post about the MSM telling us to pick McCain as an electable moderate, that certainly is true in fact liberals have told me they like McCain compared to other Republicans, but of course all voted for Obama.
To me McCain was worse than a moderate, he was a moderate that tried to flip most of his long standing positions to conservate sounding ones just for the 2008 election, and then his senate primary because he was challenged. In other words, he was a phony who would cause great damage in the WH. Now enter Romney who is likely to follow the same path as Mccain if he got the nomination.