Crushing their spirits: turncoat Dems edition

Remember Zell Miller? The Amazon description of his book, A National Party No More (snicker), says:

As part of a stinging critique of the Democratic Party, Miller outlines key positions on important issues that can again make the party relevant for the entire nation. From tax cuts to welfare, gun control to the environment, the arts to education, immigration to terrorism, Miller identifies values that make sense to a growing majority of Americans.

Miller’s candid analysis of the campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton further underscores his conclusion that the Democratic Party can no longer field a serious presidential challenge.

How is that thesis working out in 2008?

But Zell wasn't the only Democrat who argued that Democrats could only win by morphing themselves into Republicans. The party's establishment consultant class was replete with them. And many elected Democrats, believing the crap about a "permanent Republican majority", switched sides. Louisiana Rep. Rodney Alexander did so minutes before the filing deadline in 2004, two days after filing to run as a Democrat, ensuring that Democrats wouldn't be able to field an opponent. Why did he do it? The best he could offer was a lame, "I just decided it would be best for me to switch parties, that I would be more effective in the 5th District in the state of Louisiana as a Republican."

These idiots all thought that switching to the GOP would put them on the right side of history.

By winning big, and winning decisively, and humiliating the GOP in every corner of the country -- including its supposed southern and Mountain West strongholds -- we can rub Zell's face in his ridiculous book, and his ridiculous concern-troll "solutions" for the Democratic Party.

Tell me that wouldn't be sweet.

Leave everything on the road.