Better Get Started on 2012, Then

Kevin Drum, who I normally consider to be one of the more reasonable Democratic bloggers, betrays a hint of over-confidence...

I expect the 2008 race to be very crowded. For a variety of reasons, 2008 is likely to be a landslide win for whoever the Democratic candidate turns out to be, and I think lots of Dems know it. That's why John Kerry is still sounding like a candidate: he doesn't want to be the unlucky Al Smith watching from the wings while someone else cruises to the presidency because they had the good luck to pick the right year to run.

Yes, that's right -- a landslide. From a party that continues to lose points in voter identification, has lost ground in the Senate and the House, seemingly can't win a state south of Maryland with a Southerner on the ticket and whose front-runners right now would be the woman Senator from New York whose picture appears next to the word "polarizing" in the dictionary and the charisma-challenged 2004 general election loser... we should expect a landslide.

I guess we need to give Drum points for optimism. Maybe he wants to cast a bet on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays winning the World Series, too.