A Hillary presidency will be horrendous, but it will not be as bad as you may think.
Remember, even Bush with a solid Republican House and Senate for six years could not accomplish very much because of dedicated Democrat minority opposition and some deviant (inadvertent pun!) Republicans.
Similarly, Hillary will be thwarted on a lot of her big plans by wayward Democrats and an energized Republican minority, especially one being purged of the old elite bulls by retirements and age.
OK, we won’t get a conservative Supreme Court nominee, but the Justices being replaced are liberals - Stevens, Ginsberg. Do you think John McCain is going to nominate an Alito or Scalia, or an O’Connor or Lieberman?
The battle against illegal immigration will not be much different whether it is McCain, Clinton, or Obama. We are in for a temporary retreat on rolling back illegal immigration, and will have to fight it like we did last year on amnesty and the Dream Act - from the grass roots. We will lose some on the margins, like grants and some amnesty to illegals, until the pain threshold (i.e., it hits YOUR neighborhood) gets too high.
The bottom line is this - except for the War in Iraq, which may well be essentially over come January 20, 2009 thanks to Petraeus and Bush, there is little difference on the big issues facing America (immigration, the judiciary, tax increases, a few others) between McCain and Clinton/Obama. Like 1994, a few years of a Clinton presidency with a supportive Democrat Congress will be such a total failure that it will change the political alignment back to conservative (not Republican!) positions.
With John McCain. the Republican Party, now safely back in the control of the elites like the old Rockefeller days, will repeat the mistakes of Gerry Ford and Bob Dole candidacies. But the unintended consequences of their smug “leadership” will their own loss of control to a motivated conservative base, like in 1980 and 1994.
Exactly! Well said.