It looks like Obama is going to win the Presidency. Now sure, I disagree with him on almost everything, but maybe his victory isn't such a bad thing. Iowahawk's latest satire really does ring a little true:

Think about it. With Barack Obama in office, assholes like us will fade into a distant unpleasant memory. Don't get us wrong, we'll still be hanging around, probably as junior staffers in some federal arts agency. But you have our word on it -- we'll be practically invisible. No more C-word t shirts, no more intersection blockades, no more vandalism until the next election cycle. Nosirree, we'll be timid and well-behaved and quiet as church mice, working away on grant proposals. We think you will also be pleased to know that under Obama, negative news stories and the steady flow of shitty anti-American war movies will virtually disappear overnight.

Oh, how I would love this to be true. To never again see these righteous *holes spouting their slogans and hate is some real Hope!Change! I could get behind.

Of course, the downside is that Obama will actually be President. And, he'll almost certainly be President with a Democrat majority in the House and the Senate. He could wreck some havoc.

However, there's an upside. An Obama victory will force the GOP to examine itself and reassemble its big tent. Americans do love us some divided government, so it's likely the GOP would turn to history and try to repeat the success of the 1994 Republican Revolution in the 2010 mid-term elections. Perhaps they'd even seek to renew their Contract With America.

Now that I think about it, perhaps this is the best solution. A GOP-led Congress could temper and/or block Obama's most socialist proposals while at the same time an Obama Presidency would let everyone feel good.

Unfortunately, it's almost just as likely that the GOP will remember the rapture with which the Sarah Palin pick was received and instead swing even further to the social right: Prayer for everyone! Abortions for no one! Tiny American flags! I think this would just further marginalize the party and the political spectrum would begin to resemble that which we have here in Madison: Obama leading a lefty "Progressive Dane"-like party, the Dems representing a center-left position and the Right being virtually non-existent. Now that's actually scary.

As much as the current Republican party annoys me, I think the post-2008 election is going to be an important time to get involved with it. It's going to take more Social Libs/Economic Conservatives to make sure the party takes the right (not just the Right) course.