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Oddly enough I think there is a case to be made for the idea that John McCain's finest contribution to America may prove to be his 2008 loss to Barack Obama.
That loss probably saved us from a Hillary Clinton Presidency and laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency.
McCain's support in 2008 among Conservatives was lukewarm and it is only Sarah Palin's presence on the ticket that gave him any chance at all.
But after 4 years of a McCain presidency it's doubtful that even Sarah could have carried him to a second term.
If McCain had won in 2008 Hillary would have come roaring back in 2012.
Remember - in 2008 it was understood that she would be the democrat candidate.
But then Barack Obama swooped in out of nowhere and stole the prize right out of her hands.
Had Obama gone on to lose to McCain she would have been the 2012 nominee even if democrats had to Arkancide every other candidate for the nomination.
On the other hand, Hillary would have been 4 years younger and a little more fit than in 2016, she wouldn't have had the history of her miserable failure as
Secretary of State, and she wouldn't have been hounded in the months before the election with her extensive record of criminal activity as Secretary of State
and later, as candidate for the democrat nomination, ie: lost emails, smashed cel-phones, Uranium sales to Russia, election rigging, etc.
And she wouldn't have had to lug 8 years of the democrats miserable Obamunism on her back like a Crack Monkey.
And it is that miserable 8 years of Obamunism and democrat criminality that fired up conservatives in 2016 and carried Donald Trump into the presidency.
But 4 years of a McCain presidency would have had the opposite effect and in a 2012 McCain-Hillary contest she would probably have whipped McCain soundly.