Hillary is no dummy. She knows she can't win in '08 in a two person race. Her max is about 45 percent. Bill could manager 49 percent in a good year, with no war and a great (Reagan-created) economy. Just like her husband did twice, she will have to rely on a third party candidate to siphon off 6 percent or so of the GOP vote. It will either be McCain storming off the stage after he is rejected by GOP voters in the primary, or some other RINO, seduced by the siren call of the media to run because the GOP is just too conservative. See that happen, and beware. If it doesn't, rejoice in the knowledge that Hillary will go down in flames, winning far fewer states than Kerry did.
IMHO,( and I have my asbestos suit and tin foil hat on as I type this) Mclame will be Queen Hillary's VP. A Mclame and J F'n K ticket wouldn't have worked, because they would have constantly tried to out "war-hero" each other, instead of working together.
Queen Hillary NEEDS Mclame to cover her behind on the "weak on defense" portion of her resume, it'll be a "kum-bay-ya" ticket, and all the "Mclame-iacs" (ie squishy rino middle-of-the-road voters and the MSM) will go running to embrace it.
When Mclame FINALLY figures out that he ain't NEVER gonna be the 2008 Rep candidate for POTUS, he'll go for "revenge" and accept the Queen's "offer". VP is better than nothing, and Mclame can play his "I'm a war hero so I'm right until death" before every camera in the MSM while Queen Hillary goes almost invisible all the way to the White House.
This is the scenario that worries me. Hillary easily takes the Democratic nomination. McCain easily takes the Republican nomination.
Then something happens which causes the McCain campaign to self-destruct, and Hillary wins.
IMHO, McCain is simply such a good communicator in interview situations that IMHO no other Republican is going to be able to stop him in the primaries. But I'm not sure if he can go the distance.
If that happens, then the Republicans need to remember the lesson from Ross Perot and refuse to vote 3rd party. Let the 3rd party candidate peel off votes from the dems.