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Better yet we may find someone with a broader vision that builds on Reagan's legacy and takes us to a new place. But we need time for that to happen.

I will advance another theory that essentially states we may not be going to "a new place" in the format that Ronald Reagan was able to mold. I see the possibility that the strains created by social, Constitutional, and security divergences may now have sewn the seeds of an eventual Pub disintegration.

The Whigs could not deal with sectional issues which today may have their counterparts in abortion, Second Amendment, and border security issues. The Dims, IMHO, are not beset with divisions that run so deep into their moral and philosophical core that their disagreements cannot be overcome by disgust for the Right. The light at the end of the Pub tunnel, however, is growing dimmer and dimmer.

The question now is whether the climate will permit a great leader, if there is one, to leap onto the Pub stage stage and do what great leaders do-- define the great issues in a way that enables us to recognize and dispense with the distractions that lead to the extinction of political parties. It is going to be one hell of a ride to Nov. 4, 2008.

I understand your concern about the Republican coalition and the conventional analysis of the Democrat's "better" position. However, I don't think that the conventional analysis necessarily applies in the current circumstances.

First, we are at war. Most Americans realize this, even if they want to try to ignore it. We are currently wallowing in a media induced fantasy that if we just "give peace a chance" everything will be fine, but no one really believes that. I give it weeks, not months, before someone stands up and slaps a John Murtha or Nazi Pelosi very publicly (in the fashion our VP just did, but it will need to be someone else to have the effect I imagine). The Washington Post came close this last week with their vicious comments about Murtha's "slow bleed" plan.

The majority of Democrats do not agree with the Dhimmicrats who are in charge, but they have been able to delude themselves into denying that their party leaders were flat out traitors because of their collective hatred of Bush. Well Bush isn't running in this next election. And the contrast between the American position and the Dhimmicrat position will be bared for all to see. I expect the Joe Lieberman liberal but American wing of the Democrat party to stand up and spit in the eye of the George Soros moonbat wing of the Dhimmicrat party.

By front loading the primaries this time around they may end up stuck with a Soros Dhimmicrat as their candidate before they come to their senses. If so, I will expect the lowest turnout by Democrats in history. I don't think their party will survive intact if that scenario plays out.