Actualy the NY Sun is going by poll numbers. I don't think this is politically motivated to push McCain. All the Polls are saying McCAin/Giuliani are the front runners regardless of what Freepers think.
You may be right. McCain and Giuliani are the only candidates the press ever talks about, for understandable reasons. These are the people they'd like to see run.
I sincerely hope that Karl Rove and the other politically savvy operators around the President have had a learning moment over the Harriet Miers fiasco, and will start paying attention to the base again. The President can't run again, but they should be thinking about the midterm elections, and thinking even harder about who would be best to replace Bush in 2008.
It can't be a RINO. That's the mistake they have made too many times to be counted. The results of the last three elections should show that that isn't what people want. Apparently, they want a compassionate conservative, whatever that means.
Also they have shown everywhere but in the leftmost cities and states that they want a pro-lifer. On the national level, a pro-abortion Republican will always lose, because the fanatic pro-aborts will never vote Republican no matter what, and the religious conservatives will stay home.