The notion that any thinking person more than one year out of college could believe that Obama will be competitive in the general has now moved from the ridiculous to the sublime: bitter-cling has no legs because it's old news, Obama is unelectable and the nabobs in the Democratic Party have long known it.

Winning the presidency is not their objective. Just what would they do with the presidency and control of both houses? Errr....precisely none of the promise-the-moon vision: the war will go on, because it must go on; the American health care system and broader domestic economy are already the least bad versions on offer that don't involve cohersion; and global warming millenarianism is the opiate of the left. Democrats are quite content to contemplate four-to-eight more years of dual-house legislative obstruction and juicy port barrel ear marks.

Hillary just hasn't been sent the memo: those nabobs figured she would already have her hands full fetching their coffee.

Speaking of cohersion, thank God(ess) the executive branch will be in McCain's hands: do you not shudder to think of the new intrusions and cohersions to which we would be subject if the unreconstructed leftists backing Obama/Dear Leader got their soft, never-done-an-honest-day's-wor­k-in-their-life fingers on the expansive new powers the Bushies have carved-out for the presidency? Goodbye warrantless wire-tapping for national security; hello warrantless wire-tapping for politically incorrect speech.