Hewitt On McCain

I've been amused recently by Hugh Hewitt's boosterism for the McCain campaign. Not surprised: Hewitt is a partisan hack who will write anything. But amused. Earlier this week on a blogger conference call, Hewitt was merrily getting McCain to get into the latest piece of anti-Obama McCarthyism on the Ayers front. It's worth reminding ourselves - and the McCain camp should remind themselves too - what Hewitt has written about McCain just in the last few months. He is not a McCain fan, to put it mildly. I've rounded up a few gems:

January 31:

McCain is a very weak general election candidate, and if he was to win, would not govern as a conservative in any significant way.

January 14:

To know John McCain in Congress is not to like him.

January 13:

[C]onservatives have to know that Senator McCain is the anti-conservative ...

January 11:

A GOP vote for McCain ... is a vote for an old warrior way past his prime ...

July 10, 2007:

[T]here are vast  numbers of Americans who really are conservative, who  really do vote their beliefs, and for whom John McCain's anti-conservative politics and positions could not be redeemed by his personal story of courage and service or by his relentless and correct support for victory in Iraq and the wider war.

May 18, 2007:

Senator McCain's contempt for you is complete.  React accordingly.

And my personal favorite:

March 1, 2007:

Sen. McCain is a great American, he's been a lousy senator and a terrible Republican. That's the brand.

Really? A "lousy senator"? I don't think even Obama and Clinton would go that far.