No branch of the Republicans, whether staunch conservatives or the most worldly of the Establishment, shall ever be accorded even the least amount of sober respect from the mainstream leftist media. Oh, for tactical purposes, one or another of the Republicans would be given a little build-up in the primaries, but at crunch time, the Republican, regardless of stripe, will ALWAYS be branded as extremist, racist, sexist, homophobic, flat-earther, and reactionary at best. And when this is not enough, sometimes the MSM tells us how they REALLY feel, that the Republican was found in bed with either a dead girl or live boy. Doesn’t even have to be remotely the truth.
The playbook description never changes.
Exactly...maybe Graham will learn an important lesson, but I doubt it.