What do you think of McCain wanting to stay in that hellhole for another 100 years? Do you think independents are going to vote for him over this?
Green Party socialists will be elected to Congress and you guys will still be talking about the need to stay the course and calling those who want the war to wind down a bunch of surrender monkeys. At what point do you want to continue fighting when gas shoots up to $5 a gallon and the dollar becomes as worthless as 1920s German Marks?
Use technology to replace the need for petroleum without downsizing vehicles to pregnant roller skates or castrating the engines as the paleos wish to castrate our military and you will not need to worry about gasoline prices. Temporary discomfort from high gas prices and heating oil prices make alternative technologies a LOT more likely. At that point, paleoPaulie's Islamofascist love objects can drink crude and eat sand in radioactive deserts for all I care.
Money is not everything and, if currency collapses, you never know whether we will repudiate international debt (which suggests that we would have a very hard time obtaining more borrowed funds making fiscal conservatism absolutely necessary and bankrupting Red China in the process). Likely the "fiscal conservative" bleating about 1920s Deutschmarks will prove as poor a prediction as usual.
"Green Party socialists" will be elected to Congress only if paleoPaulie's policy of autosmooch applied to Islamofascist butts becomes a lot more popular than one may realistically imagine. Shrimp may whistle and pigs may fly but you won't see the paleosurrendermonkey or any of his disciples in cowardice elected as a non-Demonrat POTUS on any ticket.
Republicanism is conservatism. Conservatism and Republicanism are NOT and never will be mindless cartoon libertarianism.