The only question I have is: Who would irrevocably destroy our liberties faster and more irretrievably, McCain or Clinton?
My monies on Giuliani!
Dead heat. They'd just take different paths to the same goal.
Methinks McCain would do so more effectively. If (God forbid!) the Witch is elected, there's a good chance she'd face really intense pubbie opposition, as the Bent One did. Indeed, it could be even stronger because she lacks his political guile. OTOH, if McCain were elected, being a nominal pubbie, he'd be able to subvert whatever might be left of the Republican party and actually do a lot more damage than the Witch could.
Indeed, my prediction has a strong historical precedent in something that happened in Illinois about 40 years ago when I was living there and going to law school. The Illinois Republicans won a great victory in the 1966 election, taking both houses, as I remember, of the state legislature. They also elected a soon to be infamous RINO, Richard Ogilvie (sp?), governor. Illinois didn't have a state income tax at the time, the vast majority of Illinois voters didn't want one, and Dirty Dick and the pubbies were elected to keep it from happening. One of the first things Dirty Dick did was propose a state income tax and force it through the legislature with the help of the DemonRats. Being a pubbie, he was able to pick up enough RINO votes in the legislature to combine with the DemonRat votes and make it happen. If his DemonRat opponent had been elected and proposed a state income tax, the pubbies in the legislature would have stopped him cold.
Thus, in many respects, I fear McCain even more than the Witch, and seriously doubt that I'd vote for him in the general election, since the Witch would probably be the lesser of two very horrible evils.