Bob Barr? Present. Ron Paul? He’ll be along shortly. Bob Dornan? … B-1 Bob? … Hello-oo? …

All signs point towards a Democratic landslide in 2008. Which is fine: a humiliating defeat would do the Republican party a world of good. But what would do that party – and the country – even more good would be a shattering defeat, the kind where the faithful abandon the party in droves, and vote instead for a bunch of wingnut space cadets. OK, maybe it wouldn’t be good for the Republican party at all, but fuck ‘em. Only: how can this happen unless Bob Dornan returns from Pluto to explain how John McCain is a brainwashed Vietcong agent:

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