It’s corollary time:
The Boehner Inversion the Reagan Corollary to Berg’s Eleventh Law: Similarly, the Republican that Democrats support, is supported purely to wedge the conservative wing of the party
Berg’s Laws: there’s a reason they’re not called “Berg’s Casual Observations”.
A somewhat recent example: The press’s adulation of the 2008 campaign of John “Maverick” McCain.
Until he was the only one left on the Republican side. Then they brought out the knives.