Jon Huntsman: The media's favorite Republican?

It may be difficult to remember, considering the savaging he received in the 2008 general election, but there was a time, not too long ago, when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was a darling of the liberal mainstream media.

First in his 2000 Republican presidential primary campaign against then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, and then less so in the 2008 primary, the media elites fawned over him as the great moderate hope of the GOP.