Agreed. When push comes to shove, Dems, Indies and moderate Repubs will vote with their (empty) pocketbooks and (broken) hearts.
We cannot afford a continuation of the policies that have pushed us to the brink of something very dangerous to our unity as a nation.
At this point, I've still had no chance to recover from the total unreality of the Bushies. they've had to account for almost none of their crimes, and we have had no choice but to get used to it, practically speaking (in that none of us have stopped them yet.) Of course I'm voting Democrat, but then i usually have anyway.
Nothing in my lifetime comes anywhere near the hubris of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld, but I definitely don't think McCain would be able to be quite that bad, although I think he'd be incompetent in many ways. The very fact that even we Dems don't see McCain as irresponsible in the same way we do Bush is slightly, if not enormously, reassuring. I'm still just flabbergasted by BushCo. They've numbed us.