[dawn53]

It’d fracture the conservatives. Palin followers would refuse to vote for a less conservative candidate should Sarah not take the primary. Just look at any thread on FR and you’ll see it already shaping up.

Of course worst case scenario is a Perot situation, (or more recently Murkowski or Crist)...but I think Palin is much too smart to go third party.

[arthurus]

Ultimately, unless all the RINOs have heart attacks over the next 6 or 7 months,the only hope we really have is, not a third party but a replacement party, much as the Republicans were never a "third party." Instead they replaced the Whigs.