Boyd posted about the midterms (’08 is the big one. Whatever happens next month, we’re gridlocked the next two years. This will do little to salve discontent setting the stage for someone to challenge the establishment. Would that Ross Perot hadn’t been such a whack job.), and I posted this comment:

The best thing for Democrats would be to win the House but not Senate.  If they take neither House they’re shown as powerless.  If they take both then a Democratic Presidential win in 2008 puts us in the same mess we’re in now.  Win the House but not the Senate and the Presidential race is the tiebreaker.  Then the Dems can hope Obama pulls a Clinton (Bill, not Hillary) and galvanizes a “New Democrat” base and rides it to election.

Best thing for the Republicans is for the Dems to take the House and Senate.  That delegitimizes the current regime and opens the door for a true outsider and reformer in 2008.  McCain would flop back to being a maverick, but it’s too late for him - he tied his wagon to Bush and lost his gunslinger status forever.

Any good outsider centrist (fiscally conservative, socially moderate) Republicans out there?  Can we resurrect “McCain 2000″ for the role?  Bring back the Straight Talk Express?