The only thing that woke them up to how deep a hole they'd dug for themselves was realizing that the general election for President was going to be between McCain and Obama. If Billary had managed to get the nomination, they knew they had a chance at winning, which is why the drug addict squawked for all his minions in open-primary states to run out and vote for her. But with Obama at the top of the bill, they've got less chance than a snowball in a blast furnace, and they've finally realized it.

By all the evidence, they're willing to throw McCain under the bus in a mad dash to beat the crowd out of the door and take as much money with them as they can stuff in their pockets, before the doors get slammed shut and the true reckoning begins. They do NOT want to be around when the piper demands to be paid.

I'm waiting with just a bit of fear and trembling to see what happens when Cowboy-hat Oathbreaker shows up at the opening ceremonies for the Beijing games. That would be a PRIME opportunity for an assassination attempt, and history is packed full of examples of tyrants becoming saints when they're martyred. If someone manages to whack him at the Olympics, the g0p just MIGHT manage to get McCain elected by pulling out the "patriotism and national unity in our our of mourning" card. Kooky conspiracy theory? Maybe...but it's still a possibility, and it's one that should be prepared for, on the premise of "that which is prepared for never occurs."

Things to make you go "hmmm....."

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith