This is the ultimate mommy party issue, if you believe that Democrats are the mommy party and Republicans are the daddy party.

We are crossing party lines here. Lovelace appeals to both Republicans and Democrats.

There's always twenty or thirty Republicans or twenty or thirty Democrats that sort of move away from the party line, so you've got to make sure that they are all happy. It's gonna be real tough, it's gonna be real tough.

Of course, the republicans are going to vote with their party line, but the democrats couldn't find a good reason not to vote for him. After the hearings, what good reason would a person have to vote against the guy?

With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.

The paradox is that the Republicans could reform their party before the Democrats do.