“One fate that may lie in store for the Democratic Party is to be trapped into a situation for the next twenty years where it cannot nominate anybody other than Barack Obama, and Barack Obama keeps on losing over and over again. Senator Obama’s followers would become so bureaucratically entrenched within the Party that even the sentiments of most Democrats won’t make a dent.”

This is such an appealing scenario that I have to resist wishing for it by reminding myself that:

1. The probability of this entire chain of events ocurring is very small.

2. If it did happen it would be really bad for the country in ways that can’t be forseen.