McCain may have been a rino but if we had him instead of Bush, we’d be in much better fiscal shape.
You may be correct about that (which says less about McCain than it does about Bush), although IIRC, McCain's fiscal record has deteriorated somewhat over the years. His handling of Iraq (if we'd done it at all) would have probably been less profligate. I shudder to think of what his SCOTUS appointments might have been.