Interesting bit by Salena Zito over at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

The news of Rick Santorum's political death may have been greatly exaggerated. He has not won re-election yet but he has gained traction. The junior senator of Pennsylvania has gone from being tagged as DOA to being within striking distance...

...Bob Casey has it all and he is the perfect guinea pig for Democrats to test drive in that political microcosm known as Pennsylvania. Red and blue counties neatly replicate the infamous state-by-state 2000 electoral map.

Casey, with his name as a point-grabbing commodity, is a conservative (by Democrat standards) handpicked to spoil Santorum's re-election. At least that was the thinking nearly two years ago, when Democrat leaders picked him -- the perfect choice, born weeks after John Kerry's losing presidential run.

Now, not so much so.

You see, Ned Lamont, victor over Sen. Joe Lieberman in this month's U.S. Senate primary in Connecticut, has made it unfashionable to be anything but progressive. Moderate (let alone, conservative) Democrat candidates need to move to the back of the party bus.

All around the country, the fact of Ned Lamont knocking off a sitting and very liberal Democratic Senator is waking people up to just how out of touch the Democratic Party has become since their loss in 2004. That close-fought contest should have instructed the Democrats to get serious about the war and come up with a clearly defined, alternate plan for absolute victory...but all they did was start calling ever louder for withdrawal from Iraq. They have "McGovernised" themselves, and the GOP will reap national benefits from being perceived as the Party of Victory.

For those who have been paying attention for the past year, this is why I made and stoutly adhere to my prediction of GOP gains this November: the Democrats are enthralled to the far left and that will make them unpalatable to the American people. The leftwing base of the Democratic Party absurdly came to the conclusion that their loss in 2004 was due to Kerry being insufficiently leftwing - and now the leftwing base is demanding that the Democratic Party toe the leftwing line, and through MoveOn, Soros and other pressure groups, they've got the money and the clout to keep the Democratic Party in line.

The Democrats will melt down in November - and I strongly doubt they'll field a united candidate for 2008.

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