i’ve been predicting the imminent breakup of the republican party into two or more mutually recriminating parties for years. other people have been predicting this as well

imagine my surprise to see it actually beginning last year when the teabaggers rose up

the regular republican party wants to nominate romney like they nominated dole and mccain, against the will of the baggers and their antecedants. the baggers hate him like sin. they explicitly declare that they have the right to run the republican party and they will be pissed if they don’t get somebody acceptable to them

which election cycle will cause the tensions in the republican party to be so great that it actually splits in two?