I would predict that as the HMS Obama slowly starts to take on more water, tilt and then sink, that the Progressive Left will begin to more and more engage in tea-leaf reading, hoping to hear a note of “reconciliation” from McCain. I began to hear that in the talking heads last night, reading “reconciliation” into McCain’s acceptance speech.

What they desperately will be seeking is that he will reach out to the same Progressives as who’ve been staunchly kicking Bush in the shins the last four years and being as anti-American as they can possibly think to be.

I suppose politically it would be a good thing to allow them to think that their presence and their opinion (and their vote) count, but surely they should know that everything the party of Obama and Hillary stand for is being rejected by middle-class America. I would really like the opportunity to gloat a little bit when Obama loses by the margin I think he’s going to, rather than being expected to reach across the aisle and gather the weeping hordes into a comforting embrace, while murmuring, “there, there – it’ll all be fine and you can keep on hating Bush and blaming him for everything. And never taking responsibility for ANYthing.”