The MSM has become attached to its favored status with the Presidency and that arrangement works best for them when the President is a Liberal.
You can WATCH in real time, the MSM positively agonizing over WHICH unscrupulous, low-life criminal they will finally throw all their resources and influence behind.
In elections where the Liberal field is populated by SO MANY of these corrupt and dishonorable types, you can see the MSM stepping all over its own feet before finally and shamelessly demonstrating its unconditional and wholesale support of THE most degenerate (albeit, most MSM friendly) Liberal creep!
Then... LOOK OUT! It becomes something positively Byzantine.
It always reminds me of a film I once saw of snakes mating.
I gag every time I remember it.
I agree. However, I would change the above slightly and say the media agonize over which low-life criminal DEMOCRAT they will finally throw all their resources and influence behind.
THE LAST 50 YEARS: I think Romney was a good guy, personally. I think he would have had trouble leading due to his lack of leadership skills. GWB and Bush I are honorable guys. Jimmy Carter did not have a real world clue. Reagan was a prince. JFK had issues, but was patriotic. LBJ was a criminal; a gangster.
All in all, democrats have had the most ethically challenged candidates, by far.