too many moderates have already left the GOP. I say leave the GOP to the wingnuts and encourage Palin/Huckabee etc  in 2012 for the GOP. The alternative to your scenario is then for the third party to be the modern version of the Bull Moose party. They would really be moderate conservative rather than progressive though. The few remaining sane repub, and the recent defectors, and the blue-dogs maybe, can go Bull Moose. At that point the GOP and the more extreme of the Libertarians can team up  to be the distant third party.

by rolodex on 07/23/2009 08:55:52 PM EST