Shelf Lives

I was reading this piece about the coming anti-Bush-book bust, and thinking, But what about the spate of "permanent conservative re-alignment" books published in the last 15 years, such as Wooldridge and Micklethwait's Right Nation? ("Who would have imagined that the 2004 presidential election would represent something of a last chance for the Democrats?") The softcover is at 180,000 on amazon - that's already pretty low, and expect it to be a lot lower in six months' time.