Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Hillary Clinton is certainly running for President in 2008, what with all the talk recently about The Plan. If that thought doesn't scare you, the only other viable scenario for the Democrats in '08 is even more frightening.

What the Democrats need to do to save themselves from becoming a marginal party for another generation, is look to the past. Not the recent past, ala 1992, but the real past, like 1980.

This is not a satire. I repeat, this is not a satire.

Ted Kennedy had the right idea back then. He saw that the sitting President could not get re-elected, (Jimmy Carter, for those of you who can't remember, and Iran Hostage Crisis), and tried to save the party from sure defeat. His own ambitions notwithstanding.

Had Ted gotten his turn at the wheel, so to speak, things would be a lot different around here. Instead of the Reagan Revolution, we would have had the Kennedy Renaissance. Good or bad, you can argue it either way.

But in the intervening years, all the local Dems that have run for President, have been running as for proxies for Ted anyway. Dukakis, Tsongas, Kerry, gave it a valiant try, but it's time to have the real thing, again. Kennedy '08.

Hillary won't sit down for this. But she really has no choice. Unlike her refusal to accommodate Kerry by joining him on the ticket, she wouldn't dare refuse Ted. Think of it; the Democrat's wet dream. Clinton, Bill, I mean, and Kennedy back in the White House again, but together.

The Plan is the deal Bill and Hillary made to get Bill into office first, and then get Hillary elected President. Let's call this The New Plan, and the Democrats Campaign for 2008, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.