But frankly, Romney has a good chance of beating McCain, and he'll be much easier to beat for the dems.

So you have this situation were Romney only has a small chance of victory if he becomes the Republican nominee, but if he does win the result will be (continued) disaster.

And then you have McCain who has a much greater chance of victory in the presidential election and who is a decent, honourable non-insane man, but who still is a Republican.

So, as someone who supports the democrats, who should you be rooting for? The reasonably good guy with a good chance of beating the dems, or the walking disaster who will very probably lose (but if he wins will release much more havoc than McCain would)?

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