"And as long as the reforms can be delayed by the dire shrieking of the "Anybody But The Other Party's Guy" voting bloc..."

But surely the way to get rid of that is to get rid of the Bush presidency that motivates all that kind of thing? Before you can hope to win people over to the idea that getting a right-wing Democrat into office isn't enough to achieve the changes you need, you need to have that right-wing Democrat in office. It might just be a beginning, but that's a start...