Er, I meant “italics”.
His good personal friend Dubya will pardon him- even McNamee’s lawyers say so. Without that, he would absolutely serve time.
They may be after him as an example. I always hate it when that happens. The equal justice thing is tossed out the window. However he may see some real time .
I wouldn’t put it past Bush to pardon a criminal, but being a politician, there would have to be something in it for him. Goerge W. Bush isn’t going to give you jack shit unless he’s got a reason to. There’s nothing in it for him to pardon Clemens; there’s nothing he could possibly owe Clemens. There’s no political favour to repay, no hush job to complete. Bush has no connection to Clemens’s steroid use, unless Bush was secretly moonlighting as Jose Canseco (which would be kind of cool.)
So why would he bother? If pardoning Clemens would cost Bush even a microgram of “legacy” and doesn’t give him anything positive in return, he’ll let Clemens swing. He doesn’t even have to bother throwing Clemens under the bus, because Clemens has already hurled himself into the road right in front of the Intercity Express to Prison Junction.
They’re supposedly personal friends- I’d pardon my friend if I could. Not that Dubya is worried about public opinion at this point anyway, but he could just do it the day before he leaves office and if asked say Rog is a national treasure and hero to all or some such. He doesn’t owe Rog, but I can see him doing it, the only way IMO he doesn’t if he’s at all concerned about how it will look if he pardons Rog and not Bonds, Marion Jones, etc.
Bush is delusional and disconnected enough* that he might think pardoning Clemens is a “win” as far as his legacy is concerned. I mean, like, erasing a blot on the record of baseball, clearing away the scandal, letting people focus on the beauty of the traditional American game instead of continuing to gnaw at a sore spot. Like what Ford said when he pardoned Nixon. 
Besides, isn’t it true that the acceptance of a pardon is essentially an admission of guilt? Clemens could stay out of jail, but he’d be forfeiting the Hall to do it.
For that entertainment value alone, I’d like to see it happen. 
*You see the news, where Bush was surprised at the prospect of $4/gallon gas when a reporter asked him about it? Shades of, “Wow, a bar code scanner!”
Roger is not going alone. Bonds is going with him. The grand jury testimony is being released. It shows when confronted with a test that showed elevated testosterone levels ,he still denied using. Perjury charges are in his future too.
Can he go into the Hall of Fame wearing prison stripes?
I thought Bonds didn’t deny using, but rather that he denied knowing what he was using (didn’t he claim that he thought it was flax oil?). I don’t believe his claims of ignorance, but I think it will make it harder to get him for perjury (it’s the old trick corporate CEOs use when faced with criminal wrongdoing; rather than deny being corrupt, they just admit to being clueless).
And in so doing, they choked off the flow of blood to his brain.