Bush Will Not Seek Third Term!

What if you spent eighteen months of a presidential campaign running against an opponent who wasn't going to be on the ballot? I've had that thought burrowing through my brain as I've watched the Democratic presidential candidate primary debates and rhetoric over the last year. It was George Bush messed up this, and messed up that, and it takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush, and we need change, and ... etc...

But with still no certain Democratic nominee, and less than eight months to the election, the hyper-Lefties over at the American Prospect have veered dangerously close to the startling realization that George Bush may in fact NOT be on the ballot when they need him...

As much as Democrats love their two candidates, the really animating issue is getting rid of Bush, and they are completely open on how, and evenly divided on with whom. Without Bush-loathing as the organizing principle of their unity, Democrats could find themselves on shaky ground: the party's old personality disorders may begin to resurface.

It's been 40 years since neither a sitting President, nor his VP, was on the ballot. And even then, the Democrats were tearing themselves apart running against the guy who wasn't running -- in that case one of their own, President Lyndon Johnson.