re: #49 bloodstar

What happens is there is a fight for the center. Specifically, we get back to the concept of a center left and a center right party with the crazies of playing in their own little world. Right now there are a ton of disaffected independents who would be ripe to jump onto a center right party.

This is what gave us Sarah palin: there were serious rumblings among fundamentalist Christians that they would field their own candidate if McCain got nominated because he was not conservative enough for their tastes on abortion and “family values”.

So how to they reach enough of the right-of-center mainstream without alienating the extreme right and still come up with enough votes to regain power?

That is the question they will have to ask themselves. Sort of reminds me of the polar opposite of the great debate in the Green party in Germany on wether to keep to their ideals or join in the coalition and actually govern…