It's becoming more apparent with each passing day that the drawn out battle between the dueling Democrats is a gift that just keeps on giving for Republicans. For all of the rancor that McCain's securing the nomination wrought, those days are behind us; and it's now a pleasure to be able to sit back and watch the other party implode under its own mistakes.

The Democrats are paying the price for two big mistakes. The first is the jumbled and elitist primary system they've created, built to keep out certain undesirable candidates (Jesse Jackson?). So many of the states are not winner-take-all, certainly fewer than under Republican party rules, and therefore having two popular candidates results in a deadlocked war of attrition. Furthermore, we've learned (surprise!) that under the Democrats rules, there really are no such thing as pledged delegates.  So while the idiocracy is all over cable news pontificating over the delegate count and who the superdelegates are leaning toward -- it doesn't matter people! The fact that there are not only superdelegates in the first place, but that really none of the delegates are actually committed until the convention has guaranteed that Hillary would stay in this race as long as she kept it close enough to have a fighting chance.

Which takes us to Big Mistake #2. The Democrats have had years to throw the Clintons overboard for the sake of their party, but up till now have behaved like the Clinton's lapdog, defending them and joining in the demagoguery of all those who dared to criticize the King and Queen of the party. What we have learned is this: It takes an Obama. Until Obama came along, the Clintons were still the best, if not the only, hope of reclaiming the White House. Now that there's a new guy in the neighborhood that they like better, the Clintons become old hat. Now prominent Democrats and members of the mainstream idiocratic media are calling for the Clintons to just get out of the way and let Obama do his thing. We're finally hearing things said about the Clintons from the mainstream that had previously only been said by conservatives and Republicans. Suddenly, other Democrats and the press care that Hillary and Bill lie, cheat, are phonies, will smear anyone who stands in their way, will try to be all things to all people, and will steal to get what they want. So every time I now read Maureen Dowd completely get the Clintons, or hear anger toward them from the likes of Keith Olberman or Chris Matthews, just to name a few, I think "Where were you people for the entire decade of the 90s?" The Clintons accomplices in the media and within their party allowed them to survive an endless string of scandals, so rather than getting rid of such dubious characters when they had the chance, they've allowed them not only to survive but to remain at the head of the party, and now they won't leave.

Message to Democrats: you brought this all on yourselves.

And Republicans have absolutely nothing to do with any of it. Sure, conservatives had problems with McCain being our nominee. We had an honest debate over core conservative principles, and this time principles lost. But at least McCain understands national security and would never propose any kind of socialist agenda close to what both of the Democrats are out there proposing.

Also, the ways in which issues of sex and race, basically identity politics in general, are so infused within liberalism that they're paying yet another price for this. This serves as a nice contrast to Republicans, who have in recent years nominated a black man to the Supreme Court, and under George W. Bush we've had two black Secretaries of State, one of whom is a black woman. Do we have celebrations and pat ourselves on the back when this occurs? No. In each case, these people were appointed to these respective positions based on merit and character, not because of skin color. Meanwhile, the Democrats are out there talking about how blacks will vote for the black man and women will vote for the woman, while very few Democrat voters have any idea of what either candidate would actually do if elected (see Obamamania).

Now McCain and the Republicans can sit back and watch what will inevitably be more of the same for the Democrats all the way up to the convention. Don't listen to anyone who says Hillary will drop out if she's down in the delegate count. These people obviously still don't get the Clintons, even after all these years. In the meantime, McCain can take trips to Iraq like a responsible adult. And that's what this race has come down to: the adults vs. the children. It's those who will do what they know is necessary for the good of our country vs. those who wish to whine and complain about how unfair everything is.

If you Democrats really want something to complain about, and if you wind up losing this election that was supposed to be handed to you on a silver platter, don't blame the Republicans.