All of Your Base Are Belong To Us

Pity the average Republican and Democrat.

They simply go about their business most of the time, and then, if they are motivated to vote around the primary season, many of them scan the list of names and cross of the ones that don't look familiar. Thus we have the apparent resurgence of John McCain and the so-called "inevitability" of Hillary.

Now it's all out of whack. Now radio hosts are responding to McCain's winning streak by bellowing indignantly about the true nature of conservatism - which must seem like a much more stringent standard then average Republican Joe considered, offhand. And all of the folks on Hillary autopilot are being begged by their college-age relatives to consider Obama, instead of sending us backwards into 4 to 8 years of everyone screaming at each other constantly.

So the conservatives are aligned in one last stand behind a guy who was widely diaparaged (in some corners) as the most loathsome type of moderate until about 18 months ago - Mitt Romney. And the Clintonites, who once upon a time grooved to the tune "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow" are trying to fight the future, and twisting themselves into knots attempting to spin 1984-isms by claiming The Same is really Change.

Never has this seemed more apropos.

Tonight's the night. I will be semi-liveblogging, and trying not to stay up too late to catch the California results ...

Update: The brutality on the Right continues.