How many democrats does it take to screw up a slamdunk election?

Ahahahahahaha!

I’m pleased to say that the Democratic party is every bit as stupid and shortsighted as I thought they were. After Super Tuesday Redux tilted the board back over to Hillary’s side, the Democrats assured themselves of a colossal cluster fuck of a fight for the nomination. With Hillary just slightly behind Obama, all they gained for their time and money was an increasingly negative campaign, which gladdens Republican hearts everywhere.

And the Democrats only have themselves to blame for the entire mess. Here you have a desperately ambitious political tiger (Hillary) chasing down a free range gazelle (Obama) in the open field. Now, with the delegate momentum behind her, you’ve basically tied a raw steak to the gazelle’s tail. She smells blood and will come out trying to rip out Obama’s heart. Expect increasingly vitriolic rhetoric from the tiger, possibly attacking the gazelle’s soft underbelly, AKA his wife.

For her part, Michelle Obama continues to say the wrong things to the wrong people espousing the wrong ideas. This is a NATIONAL campaign and she is promulgating rhetoric targeted to her husband’s base. THEY ALREADY LIKE HIM! All she’s doing is alienating the moderates and the possible crossover voters with her "America is mean" pablum.

Even so, the Democrats have exacerbated this infighting by playing semantic games with delegate rules and primary dates. Michigan and Florida delegates aren’t being counted by the Democrats because of some arcane scheduling issue. Super Delegates are the 2008 buzzwords, with most of the power in their hands. Given Clintonian history, most of those will end up in Hillary’s column, which can only hurt the party.

When Hillary wins the nomination, the Republicans will have a field day with the entire nomination process, pointing to the machinations of a power-hungry shrew who began pulling strings for her own presidency as soon as her horndog of a husband took office. It stinks of cronyism and manipulation, from a party that purports to be of the people.

When Obama wins the nomination, the Republicans will have a field day simply by using Hillary’s ads leading up to the primary. She’s been the Republican’s most effective campaigner, resorting to slash-and-burn politics to gouge at the pristine Obama image. Two weeks ago, people were speculating about her (hoped for) graceful exit from the race. Now, with the scent of blood in her pinched little nostrils, she is clawing and scratching at the Obama exterior and voters will remember all these scars come November.

In 2004, Bush was re-elected because the Democrats were stupid enough to put an empty suit up as their standard bearer. "I’m not him" proved to be an ineffective campaign slogan for Kerry. I really can’t remember anything else he said.

In 2008, McCain will be elected because the Democrats will be stupid enough to allow their two standard bearers to rip each other to shreds just to get the nomination. Rather than an empty suit, the Democrats will nominate a bloody mess. And they’ll curse the American public for not electing their candidate, when it’s really their fault for not choosing their poison months earlier.