Wisconsin Cheese and Change

First of all, a prediction: In another four to six weeks much of the consternation from conservatives will have started to fade, and the Republicans will fall in line behind McCain.

No, I'm not saying "suck it up". I'm saying, as this thing firms up against an opponent (looking like Obama) - many GOPers will feel much more affectionately towards the old maverick. His themes are going to be slowly changing, and there was a preview of that in his Wisconsin victory speech.

As for the Democrats, the media wants another change in the fundamental dynamic. The want an Obama bubble to burst so Hillary can make a real contest of the final stretch. But I think something different is happening with the general Democrat public, which is slow to awaken, and which moves with a great deal of weight and inertia.

They don't want Hillary Clinton. It seems like a dismal restoration. The only people she's winning are the people who don't know very much about the choices. According to the Wisconsin exits, the only group she's winning are over 50 women who haven't been to college. Herself, but with less education.

The Democrat Party elders are watching this go down. And they're watching the trial balloon "cheater" strategies the Clintons have let fly in the media. Are you going to tell me that a supposedly independent arbiter like Al Gore wants these Bill and Hill on the 2008 ticket, and back at the helm of the Democrat Party?

Nope.