John McCain

If John McCain had won, and he had sticked to current Republican austerity dogma and done nothing to rescue or stimulate the economy in early 2009, what would have happened? We don't have to guess. Because the conservative governments of Germany, France, the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe have provided us with our parallel universe.

Watch how John McCain goes from the American hero of the Hanoi Hilton to a Rip Torn caricature who stands in his bath robe on his front lawn waving a shotgun at passerbys as he rants incoherently.