Gotterdammerung

You know, yeah, the Democrat's fuddlement is amusing, it's reassuring, it's just. But eventually I'm gonna stop laughing about it, because eventually--as soon as possible, in fact--the Democratic Party needs to figure out how to start contributing to, you know, Republican Democracy.

Check out the atrophy (ripped from Aaron's Rantblog):

• Washington - 140,000 DOWN TO 120,000. 14% less blue.
• California - 1.3M DOWN TO 1M. MUCH less blue. 300,000 votes less blue.
• Hawaii - 68,000 DOWN TO 37,000. MUCH less blue. HALF as blue.
• Michigan - 220,000 DOWN TO 165,000. LESS blue, about 25%
• Delaware - 43,000 DOWN TO 27,000. 37% less blue.
• Maryland - 330,000 DOWN TO 280,000. Less blue. 15% less blue.
• Pennsylvania - 200,000 DOWN TO 122,000. 39% less blue.
• New Jersey - 500,000 DOWN TO 212,000. MUCH less blue. 288,000 votes less blue. 58% less blue.
• New York - 1.7M DOWN TO 1.2M. MUCH less blue. Half a million votes less blue. 29% less blue.
• Connecticutt - 255,000 DOWN TO 160,000. MUCH less blue. 37% less blue.
• Rhode Island - 119,000 DOWN TO 86,000. Less blue. 28% less blue.

The Democrats gained big in Minnesota, Vermont, and the People's Republic of Oregon. ZERO Republican strongholds. Above, of course, you see major Bush swells all over both coasts.

Now, how much of this simply reflects the deep sympatico half the country seems to have with Bush, and how much reflects the spectrum of unelectable modifiers embodied by Senator Kerry? Well...I guess probably a big helping of both.

That's not the point. The point is this is who the Democrats nominated in a time of war. The point is this Democratic Party lacked the vision and almost completely the resources to make a better choice--for us and for its own fortunes.

One question posed by the Republican sweep yesterday is how long will it take for a moderate contingent within the Democratic Party to organize itself, and begin dismantling it's virulent one?

I say 8 years minimum. And I'm not rejoicing for that number, I think it sucks.