She is probably right to an extent. A McCain victory would have been very problematical for Conservatives when he would have reverted to his previous liberal positions.
Very true. The past eight years has shown us that when a republican pushes liberalism from the White House, it's very difficult for conservatives in the congress to stand against them. This was especially true considering how even the republican leadership in the house and senate during those years just went along with all of the liberal legislation Bush wanted passed. McCain would have been far worse than Bush in this regard. McCain would have begun to "reach across the isle" on day one, and he wouldn't have looked back.
At least now the conservatives in the House and Senate can be a true opposition with the liberal president being from the other party. It's just too bad that we don't have enough numbers in either chamber of congress to mount much of an opposition on many issues. We are going to be heavily leaning on those democrats that ran to the right of the republicans that they defeated in the 06 and 08 house races. Those democrats are from conservative districts, and will be the most vulnerable should the agenda drift too far to the left.