Will it backfire?
Tom DeLay, at the second link below, told a press panel in St. Paul
The tough coverage has done something for McCain that the maverick could never do with his own party.
The media has done more for John McCain in the last two days than he’s done for himself in the last year and a half.
Trashing her [Sarah Palin] is waking up the sleeping giant, and the sleeping giant is Republican women.
The feeding frenzy now engaged in by the liberal media is a sure sign that far-left liberal leaders are afraid of Sarah Palin and the very real threat she will help swing the November election away from them.
Link here and here.