re: You're avoiding the point.
IMO, McCain should have picked Graham of SC.
I don't know if the Repubican Party will return to Hamiltonian basis, or if it will continue to founder with the neocons. I hope this finishes them.
Ironically, the effects of their own attacks on McCain in 2000 most likely has resulted in the end of their influence - I hope so, along with the end of attack politics.
But make no mistake, there will not be a whitewater this time, nor women on the side to stop work on the nation's problems. Any attacks will be met with the best defense, in a Chicago nano-second.