I'm finding all the talk of do-overs for the Michigan and Florida primaries a little ironic - and on many levels.

First, we have the fact that Michigan and Florida only sought to push the dates of their primaries up to make themselves relevant to the ridiculous process this country has for choosing its supreme leader.

When it is all said and done, these states could be more relevant than they ever dreamed.

Key word here: Could.

The chances are equally real that the Democratic party, the one that fancies itself as being the advocate of the people and for the people -- as opposed to the GOP and the entities and deities it creates -- could render the votes of countless people in these large swing states null and void.

What is this disaster we wrought upon ourselves, fellow Democrats?

We are begging for four to eight more years of GOP dictatorship hidden under the guise of American flag lapel pins and prayer breakfasts.

And speaking of do-overs, how many of those swept up in Obama Mania would like to take a Mulligan on their vote after the recent revelations about his "spiritual adviser," the Rev. Jeremiah Wright?

I'm sure all the left-of-center "educated white males" -- and many other focus groups considered part of the base of the political version of Sanjaya's quest for American Idol honors -- were kicking themselves while readying their golf clubs for spring tee times.

The Rev. Wright, whose diatribes were easily attainable on CDs and DVDs (shame of the media for not doing its job and digging these up sooner), may've been trying to lift the spirits with words that, from his perspective, he believed.

Little did he know that he was delivering a virtual eulogy for Obama's bid for the White House.

Sanjaya ... oooops ... Obama still might eke out the Democratic nod, but he has much of a shot now of winning a general election as I do of dunking a basketball (I'm 5-10 with a vertical leap of a half-inch).

He only made it worse by distancing himself from Wright in the immediate aftermath of the controversy.

Hillary Clinton, perhaps by default and much to the chagrin of all those who seek to make her out as the most evil woman ever to put on a pants suit, is the best and only shot for the Democrats.

A case could be made at the convention if -- actually, when -- she wins Pennsylvania and carries that momentum to the equally gritty and blue-collar states of Indiana, West Virginia and and Kentucky. Throw in probable wins in the Florida and the Michigan primaries, Mulligans not withstanding, and we're looking at a candidate who'll have the momentum, possibly the popular vote and all the big states sewn up.

All Obama will be able to counter with his pre-Wright victories in Red states that will give him an ever so slight delegate lead.

If that is enough for the Super delegates to go with him, as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suggested in a troubling weekend interview -- during which she wore this "I'm-gonna-get-those-Clintons" grin -- then it's "Hello, President McCain."

And you can lay the blame on the leaders of the party -- on the likes of Pelosi and DNC honcho Howard Dean, who royally botched the Florida and Michigan scenarios in the same manner he killed is own presidential aspiration with that awful yell after losing in Iowa in 2004.

True, a lot people don't like Hillary Clinton. I don't quite get it. At best, she is someone who should foster ambivalence. Some polls suggest that her popular-vote ceiling is 52 to 54 percent and that's considered too low (odd, since the current president was disliked by as much of the country in 2004 and still won).

However, all of her dirty laundry is hanging out on the line. We can see it. It's been there. We know what it looks like.

It's only just begun for Sanjaya ... oooops ... Obama. The GOP knows how to take sound bites -- like the ones provided by the conveniently retired Rev. Wright -- and plant them in the minds of the "undecided voters" (code for idiots) like mad scientists in a lab.

One constant the last eight years, as I've watched this country fall apart at the seam, was that I pronounced pride in being a Democrat and waited on a better day.

Anyone know how to register as an Independent?