[jveritas]

Although I agree with you that the liberal democrat party is dying and dying fast, there is no way the Libertarian party is going to gain any more than 0.25% of the vote.

[SkymanOH]

Absolutely. Just a tangent off liberalism itself. I can't read them anymore. They used to be interesting and I thought they had promise.

[Nuzcruizer]

I'm begining to think that Lefty-ism is actually a disease of the mind, something simular to vCJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) which rots the mind and causes it's victims to behave strangely.

And like VCJD is will without exception resilt in death (of the party)

[esoxmagnum]

It will soon be time for a centrist Republican party to spin free. I see the democratic party being reduced to the 3rd party state, fighting for votes against Nader.

There are those McCain supporters within our group that need their own party and those who are hard right.

Perhaps in the next dozen years.

What I'm interested in thought, is how all the laws the dems had enacted over the last 2 elections to prevent a 3rd party from getting on the ballots in dem states will affect this.

I mean, if the repub party splits, would the dems be so small as to be reducted to the 3rd party, thus not being able to get on the ballot because of their own laws?

Or would it be a disaster, splitting the repub vote, which would let the dems take the majority of popular vote over a split repub party.

Not sure on either front, hard to speculate, and it may not even happen, because when push comes to shove, repubs core values generally force them to stick together on common ground, unlike the dems who are constantly in-fighting.

I mean, even if McCain were to declare a run for office, many would be unhappy, but would come together to support him over Hillary.

I don't think he would win the nomination, as he would come out and attack the swifties, etc, thus giving ammo to sKerry.

Oh, I'm babbling here, because the possibilities are endless, but rest assured '06 is going to be an interesting election year for some and '08 is going to be really fun to watch.

[libertarianben]

They don't have the money making machine that the republicans and dems do.