NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Prominent conservative writer Noemie Emery said Thursday that his GOP convention speech ended the liberal media's love affair with Sen. John McCain. R-Ariz.
"For years, liberals professed their love for John McCain. They loved him, they said, because he was independent, unpredictable, and told the truth as he saw it, but mainly because he managed to rile" President George W. Bush, Emery wrote for the Thursday edition of The Weekly Standard magazine's daily convention publication.
"Then McCain spoke his mind (in New York) Monday night, saying George W. Bush ought to be re-elected, and especially endorsing the Iraq invasion," she wrote. "This was not the straight talk they were expecting, and the love stopped."
McCain's convention speech, she wrote, was "not the straight talk that liberals wanted," adding they then "burned with rage" the next day, citing a piece on the convention blog of the liberal American Prospect that said, "The existential question becomes how John McCain ever looks at himself in the mirror."
"The liberals," Emery writes, "just wanted to use McCain. It was never love at all."
