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					Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop  Can the Republican Party recover from what's happening to it this year, or will it have to be put down?  When will the country get the second political party it needs? | 
	
 How's this for a scenario that (isn't going to happen but) would get there:  Palin is the 2012 nominee leading Bloomberg to self-finance and independent run, creates a meaningful ground operation (really not going to happen) and lays the seeds of a right of center sane party.
Of course the main obstacle to this is that it assumes a significant number of right of center sane people that aren't imaginary.