Here's my opinion: anyone who so much as speculates about the 2008 Presidential election right now is aiding the Republicans.
There are three months left until the 2006 mid-term congressional elections. The campaigns are in full swing now. It looks like the Democrats have a very good chance of taking back the House. Some people are saying a Democratic Senate is possible too.
All attention now must be on the mid-terms. Anything else is a distraction.
But there's more. If the Democrats do take back congress this November, a major focus of the next two years will be undoing the damage the Republicans have done. In particular, undoing the extra-constitutional powers that President Bush has arrogated. The aim of the 110th Congress will be to burn down the "unitary executive", to turn the office of the Presidency from a dictator/king back into a glorified janitor. If we succeed, then the 2008 election will be irrelevant.
By talking about 2008, you are not only buying into the
Republican fetishization of the Presidency, but you are assuming
that we will fail this November. So I say to you: STFU.