Given what I’ve read – and heard – since the nominating conventions, I’m going to go way out on a limb with these predictions. Someone can hand me a saw later.
1. It will be McCain/Palin by a landslide, possibly rivaling the 1972 Presidential election.
2. The Democratic party as currently constituted will collapse in flames.
3. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, a new center-left Democratic party will arise from the ashes, consigning the progressive “reality-based” wing to the “dustbin of history.”
4. Moderates and independent voters will have a choice again.
Republicans, if they’re smart, will take prediction #3 very seriously. [Prediction #5: they won’t.]
