Hillary is right to suggest that they will come out unified. I don’t think we will. If John McCain is our candidate, whatever his (many) substantive virtues on the issues, either Democrat is so much more articulate, intellectually flexible, and capable of subtlety of thought and expression that McCain will come to seem to have the same weaknesses George Bush is said to have. I admit that I just don’t fully understand what it is that liberals see in him. Whatever it is may cause them to esteem him above a field of conservatives, but against a real liberal? I think those Rasmussen numbers that show McCain beating either Hillary or Obama are valid until the first debate between the nominees. Then all bets are off. Youth and intellectual energy (even wrongheaded) show well.