Or, "Kumbaya Ain't Gonna Do It This Time."
Regardless of who gets the Democratic nomination and who wins the general election, I think it's safe to say there's going to be a lot of disgruntled people out there still upset that the most progressive candidate didn't win.
If Obama gets the nomination, what will disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters do? How will they reorganize? What sort of private little wars will they get into with the Republican right, and how destructive to political stability will they be? Will Obama be able to lead the Democratic Party? Will he be able to control any street skirmishes beyond Washington between diehard old Clintonites and their diehard old conservative enemies?
If Clinton gets the nomination, what will disgruntled Barack Obama supporters do? Without Obama as a figurehead, how will they sort themselves out into a political movement with a platform and long-term legs similar to the old Clinton organization? If not, will they scatter, and some be taken up into increasingly idiosyncratic leftist/progressive movements? Will they turn into something super-effective... is this just the beginning? Will the Clintonites know what hit them? Or will it just be another four years of blog-based fundraising and rabblerousing with the same cast of blogger characters, looking for the next transformative candidate a la Dean and Obama? Whatever they do, will the Clintonites be able to control them?
And if McCain or Huckabee wins, who gets to lead the opposition? Will there be a unified opposition or will it just be more fragmentation?
Oh, and I have one more question: Is everyone going to be able to pay their credit card bills after they've been using them to donate so much cash to their favorite candidate in the heat of their passion? Is it going to be like the after-Christmas debt crunch, but worse?