The GOP needs to win, and then lose- for good

Here is Andrew Sullivan:

... if the current GOP wins the House, which in many respects, I hope they will - if the GOP is to grow up, and take some responsibility for fixing the appalling mess they largely made at home and abroad.

I agree. Further, the Republicans need to win so that they can prove, conclusively, that they are unfit to govern. And there is no better time for doing so than elections 2010, because if the Democrats win, they are going to have to legislate with even thinner majorities than they have had in the past 4 years. So they are going little done, and what they get done is going to be so watered down that it will infuriate their base even more, which will lead to a presidential election disaster in 2012.

Better, I say, to lance the boil now.

The obligatory election post

Some day, when they're done bailing like a right wing nerd-herd, Republicans will look back on this election and thank Sarah Palin for a vacation from D.C..
While of course most of the reasons the McCain campaign is failing are to do with things other than Sarah Palin, what crystallized the narrative, in peoples minds, of McCain as an impulsive man with no real plan was the SNL episode in which Tina Fey played Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric, and ran the Straight Talk Express right off the bridge.
Now I don't mean that they will thank her for ruining The Original Maverick's run. Perhaps, though, they might use the vacation to tone down some of their more hateful rhetoric, such as against immigrants, gays, and France. This, in turn, might let some people currently too embarrassed to associate themselves with a party of selfish, medieval, incompetent jerk-offs look respectable on the way the voting booth, again. And they will have nobody to thank for that vacation but Sarah Palin. Or rather, Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin.