The Destruction of the Democratic Party in 2008

The nomination of John McCain may make it possible for both the Democratic Party to self-destruct and to send the theologically rigid conservatives back to the caves where they belong.

Here is how: John McCain is the first Republican to gain the nomination without having to rely on the racist "Southern strategy" of Richard Nixon. He may indeed be elected without the support of the batshit conservatives, showing that they are not so important after all. After all, he really didn't need the American Taliban to nail down the nomination. He may not need them to win.

The second prong of this is that the cards may be in play for Hillary Clinton to wheel and deal with the insiders to get the nomination. That is going to do no end to piss off the younger voters and the Black voters, who will see that as nothing more than the sort of stone-cold treachery that people have come to expect from a Clinton. McCain is poised to move to the center and he can snap up those people. Couple the sense of betrayal by those Democrats with the Republicans who, while they may hate John McCain, they rabidly despise Hillary Clinton, and McCain could lay down a serious ass-whupping in a year when the Republican nominee should be beaten as badly as a trailer-park common-law wife in Cops.

If McCain can convert the support for him to support for the GOP by truly governing as a centrist, he could split off the young and the Blacks from the Democratic party. After all, until Richard Nixon appeared on the scene, the Black vote was a GOP vote. If McCain can pull it off, he can bring the GOP back to being the "party of Lincoln" and to majority status. The American Taliban conservatives would be forced to form their own Bugfuck Insane party, the Democrats would become a minority party.

The ghost of Nelson Rockefeller will be laughing while the whirring sound you hear will be the bodies of Nixon and Reagan spinning in their graves.