Charles Brackett has a pretty good rundown of what happened 30 years ago in Britian. The election of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives, placed the Labour Party in a crisis. In something that is strangely similar to today, the party decided that it was not left-wing enough and pushed ahead with an even more leftist platform. The result? The election of 1983 was a landslide for the Conservatives.

Today’s GOP has suffered two losses and the attitude among some is that the party was not conservative enough. So we are seeing some of the same mistakes that Labour made, albeit from the right instead of the left. So what will be the result come 2010 and 2012? If the past truly is any guide, then the Democrats might want to get out the champagne.