Who would you prefer to have won?

[IceSpear]

Romney. I doubt he would've even repealed Obamacare.

Actually, wasn't there a blueprint for a "Romney transition site" (lol) that came out after he lost, and on it was plans to dismantle the ACA through the executive branch?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Romney. I doubt he would've even repealed Obamacare.

Actually, wasn't there a blueprint for a "Romney transition site" (lol) that came out after he lost, and on it was plans to dismantle the ACA through the executive branch?

Somehow it got on the web for a few hours IIRC . I also remember a George Pataki 2012 website going up for a few days before he announced he wasn't running-I still wonder what made him change his mind.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

McCain in 2008.
-Dem Congress
-he doesn't hate poors
-he's lived in the real world

[Cryptic]

McCain in '08.  He would've had a Dem Congress and would've been more competent than Romney. 

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Maybe I'm wrong, but Romney doesn't come off to me as the type who would, say, go to war with ten different countries with a single executive order, so I guess I'd pick him narrowly.  At least with Romney we'd have some Obama-era accomplishments on the books, though most of them probably would've been done away with one way or another.

[politicallefty]

McCain in 2008.
-Dem Congress
-he doesn't hate poors
-he's lived in the real world

It's also worth considering how the 2010 midterms would have gone. I think it would have been a hideous result for the Republicans, cementing the Democratic Majorities in Congress and giving Democrats considerable power over redistricting. I wouldn't even rule out the possibility of McCain having stood down after one term. Even so, I don't think McCain working with a Democratic Congress would've been all that bad. I think Romney with a Republican Congress would have been disastrous, particularly with what the Republican Party has become in recent years.

[TNF]

McCain in 2008 would probably have resulted in the OWS protesters having live ammunition fired into them instead of rubber bullets.