He won't get through the primary.
GOP voters are faced in the first weeks of 2008 with Her Majesty having already beaten her Democrap opponents to a pulp, making the primaries a mere formality, and these GOP voters focus narrowly on who can beat her and are aided with polls showing McCain as the strongest challenger. The result will be McCain. They will be scared sh!tless with the realization that she who must not be named would basicly be in a 50:50 position to win the WH, just by being the Dem nominee.