And Romney or the extremists don’t ? A third party to appeal to the 20-30% of Tea Party supporters ? Game on ! Obama gets his 20% split of the opposite wing and Huntsman sits happy in the middle among the vast majority of pragmatic, moderately conservative voters. All he needs now is a better image campaign and more exposure.
Romney would not trigger a third party exodus. At least not with principled conservatives (extremists in your self revelatory vernacular). RINOS might bolt. What would you do?