I'm hoping for the best, but it's a long time until November.

When Democrats lose an election, in their minds it has to be because something is terribly, terribly wrong. They can't accept anything else. Some excuses you can expect to see:

"Bush spent more money than Kerry."

An old reliable. We're hearing this one already.

"The voters are idiots who don't know what's good for them."

Another old reliable, although they rarely say this out loud. This is, of course, why liberals think the government has to guide us through our lives in the first place.

"The mysterious computerized voting machines stole the election! Nobody really knows how they work, right? Probably Microsoft has something to do with it. I know software is involved. Or prions, maybe. Just concentrate on the word 'mysterious.'"

A LOT of groundwork is being laid for this one, even now. Get ready for a major push on this. It's one reason the Democrats pushed these things on us in the first place.

"NADER! NADER! NADER!"

The man siphoning off the critical commie vote from the Democratic Party. The Left is bloody FURIOUS with this man. You should see some of the stuff I've read on their sites. If Nader never drove a car before, he'd better not start, unless he has some flunky start the engine for him.

"Our voters couldn't vote!"

With voter aid, absentee ballots, registration available everywhere you look, and the franchise availabe to anyone capable of breathing through their nose, you really have to go out of your way to be "unable" to vote. But they always locate someone, and put them in front of the cameras. Of course, it's a given that these poor voters would have voted Democrat, whether anyone actually asks them or not.

"The damn economy didn't go in the crapper, like we'd been praying for all year."

Screw the unemployed, we have an election to win.

"That damn Bush caught bin Laden!"

Screw national security, we have an election to win.

There will be many other excuses, maybe even more creative than these. The one reason that will never, ever, be given is that the voters just wanted Bush to be President more than Kerry.