Was Bush the best thing to happen for Democrats?

[Landslide Lyndon]

I know that it will sound awfully cynical, especially considering how many people died because of his decisions (or the lack of them). But from a strictly partisan point of view it's hard to argue that George W. Bush's election and subsequent presidency was the best thing that could happen for the Democratic Party.

If Al Gore or John Kerry had won they would have to fight continually with a hostile congress. Whatever gains they would have achieved towards advancing a Democratic agenda, they would be incremental. And after one or two terms odds are that they would probably be replaced by a Republican, infinately more competent than Bush.

But what happened instead was that a clueless bimbo, with the enthusiastic support of a dangerously subservient republican congress, went on to drive the country to the ground, destroying along the way the republican party. That gave the Democrats the opening to recapture the House and to build a big majority in the Senate. And when they got to elect Obama, they had the tools and the popular support to enact their agenda. And at the same times their opposition was not only diminished but completely discredited.   

In other words, because of Bush the Democrats became again the majority party, and are now in their stronger position since 1964.
Heckuva a job Bushie!