"McCain is both the finest war hero since Eisenhower" you say? As I remember my History lessons Benedict Arnold was also a great war hero before he.......

I really hate to vote for Hillary, but if the US is going in the toilet for the next 4 years under Mac, I would just as soon have the toilet stains be called democrats as that way we can get the Elephant back in 4 years. Otherwise, with Mac in there, we will get the toilet stains called Republicans and the domocrats will carry big in 4 years.

As I see it, there is not much difference between a Donkey (democrat) and a Jack A** (McCain)

The argument seems almost to be sound. After all America survived both the Carter years and the Clinton years and we got Reagan and GWB. On the premise that history repeats itself, you inferred, non sequitur, that the republic will survive the ravages of a President Hillary.
That is the inference that I cannot be too sure of. She promised to start withdrawing from Iraq within 60 days of taking office. This would be a march to defeat that the Republic may not survive as well as we had fared from a defeat in Vietnam. The Vietnamese and the Chicoms were only interested in not having America as the hegemon in Asia. The Islamofacists are more interested in getting rid of America and the civilization she is associated with. There is no surviving a victory of the Islamofacists.
If nothing else, I can be certain that a President McCain will not be so quick to surrender to the Islamist. At any rate, not as quick as a President Hillary.
I submit to you that supporting Hillary is tantamount to sulking because the conservative horse did not get out of the gate. And it can be partly because the conservatives did not support an acceptable candidate early on. So, instead of going into a temper tantrum and voting for Hillary, the mature thing to do is to pick the lesser of two evils, even if it means a quasi-democrat pseudo-republican.