giddycat88 said:
I reckon Mark Warner could win easily if he chose to run, in a race between Hillary and McCain. I feel McCain will win.
The GOP will really be hoping that the Dems do run Hillary, because she'll lose the Dems any of the "values voters" that they picked up as a result of the bungling of the Iraq war. However if she runs, that means Giulliani is out (because he wouldn't even win his home state against her), Condi won't run, Frist hasn't been the most effective of senate majority leaders, Allen is a racist moron who couldn't even win a senate seat and Jeb Bush has the wrong surname. This leaves McCain, Romney and Brownback as the only plausible contenders. I personally don't think McCain will get it, because these midterms have thinned the ranks of a couple of the more conservative candidates, and as such the right will not be split when they vote in the primaries. The moderates will all vote McCain, but the mainstream of the party will vote Romney because he's more articulate, more conservative and, most importantly, hasn't made a habit of crossing the congress floor on a regular basis.
Romney vs Hillary in a very tight presidential race, which will hopefully see the GOP retain presidency, and Dems keep congress (i.e. so noone can waste money on pointless shit).