Huzzah for McCain!

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), the man President Obama defeated for the White House two years ago, was supposed to be vulnerable to a primary challenge by the Far Right's J.D. Hayworth when he ran for re-election this year.

McCain wiped the floor with Hayworth in the GOP primary yesterday.

Maybe there's some hope for at least one of the parties in its ongoing battle to maintain contact with common sense and the American people. McCain's victory is a victory not only for him personally, but for the prospect of the American political system remaining in at least occasional contact with reality despite the attempt of the rigid ideologues on both ends of the spectum to send it spinning out of control into the farthest reaches of theoretical fantasy.