I usually avoid Instapundit, due to envy and a general sense of inadequacy. But this is awfully hard to resist.

I like Condi, even though I know next to nothing about her that I haven’t read in New York Post. But still, I think a losing Rice candicacy in 2008 will be the one thing to finally put a nail in the coffin of the American Democratic party, and free up the left side of the aisle for a viable liberal party. There’s no way the powers-that-be on the right or the left will let a black woman get elected to the Presidency, no matter how qualified she is.

The powers-that-be on both sides are going to have to expose themselves for what they are, and give up their positions to the ideologies that drive the parties. The Democrats will die by the light of day, and the Republicans will take a hit. But what’s left over will be a truly conservative party for people of that persuasion, and the solution to the paradox of the left: namely, the guilt-based crypto-socialist nexus that they aspire to today will be replaced by the more libertarian version of an unregulated, merit-based identity hierarchy where the government plays no role.

It’s win-win, Condi, at least for everybody but you. Take one for the team. Whatever Dimmer gets elected in 2008 will have a Republican VP, and will probably both be impeached before the end of 2009.