Holding on until they are sane

George Will has resurrected, in timely fashion, a quote from Conservative Margaret Thatcher, whose strength of conviction Americans deeply admire notwithstanding the relative scarcity of that quslity in home front leadership.

Shortly before she was elected prime minister of England for the third time, in 1987, Thatcher observed to a journalist, "Someday, Labour will win an election. Our job is to hold on until they are sane."

If they take on the same obligation, Republicans in America would seem to have a long and hard slog ahead of them.

* The Democratic Party, after all, are whimsically espousing a candidate, Barack Obama, who has done nothing in his life that a normal person would consider an accomplishment.

* While running for president, Obama tried to tinker with delicate diplomacy then under way between President Bush and the Iraqi government over withdrawal of troops.

* Democratic spokemen have the affrontery to blame Republicans for their own party's 30-year assault on the mortgage market, which has become a casualty of Democrats' social engineering.

* Obama's former employer, ACORN, has violated National Football League rules by registering the Dallas Cowboys to vote in several jurisdictions, which may force the players to travel exhaustively to vote repeatedly at a time when they ought to be preparing for their next game.

* Decades after securing voting rights for African Americans, prominent Democrats are warning white Americans that, if Obama loses, those black citizens will take to the streets to wreak vengeance. Blacks who were championed for their normality in the 1960s are now said to be on the edge of savagery.

What's up with that? is the most appropriate response, although the English might require an interpreter.

There are, of course, problems with the proposed standard of sanity that is to be enforced before the Democrats can be permitted to win.

Is Michael Moore to be considered a Democrat, in which case the Democrats may have to wait decades for another win?

Which segments of the Democratic party are to be considered barometers in the assessment of sanity?
Joe Biden, who has traced the advent of television back to at least 1929?
Obama, who announces to the world each day whether he loves or hates America that day by the presence or absence on his lapel of a flag pin?
Michelle Obama, who is obviously a Marxist, but is being hidden so nobody finds out about that who doesn't know it already?

Were it up to me to decide, I would select Hillary Clinton as the barometer. She lost the nominating contest to Obama but is now waiting for his collapse or defeat, which her loyal supporters may actually bring about.

The Clinton caucus is lying in the weeds, and may rally to John McCain and Sarah Palin at the close, putting the Republican ticket over the top. Since that would put Clinton in the driver's seat for 2012, that strategy is as flamboyantly sane as anything can get.