Democrats have a contested primary. Once that’s settled, the winner will get a boost.

Don’t think the Republicans have the lead here, as it is too close to call at this point.

Bonus pedant points for getting this reference without Googling.
It says a lot that people like Nelson Rockefeller and Dwight Eisenhower couldn’t get nominated to a national office in today’s GOP. Heck, Goldwater might be slurred as a ‘moderate’ by this point.

(Robert BYRD blah blah! There, I saved some of you five minutes of your day.)

The GOP decided to keep the poison and push out their principled conservatives. Hell, it put the poison in charge. And refusal to admit that maybe this was the wrong course of action is just going to pull them deeper and deeper into the abyss. I don’t remember hearing in my lifetime so many people who proudly, albeit a bit defensively, declare themselves a capital-L Libertarian.

See all of the presidential hopefuls, Michael Steel, Boehner etc.

I guess a lot of that depends on what this third party is. Newt seems to think it would be more pro-business (if you can imagine) but less to do with social issues (yeah!).

I say, “Good luck. And I mean it.”

The current GOP is so far down the rabbit hole that I think we’ll see a third party of disgruntled fiscal conservatives (former Rockefeller Republican types) before we’ll see any substantive attempt by the GOP to actually try and win elections outside of the deep south.

It’s embarrassing for everyone to see them scrape the bottom of the barrel re: “Macaca” Allen. But this is a party that in addition to having no shame, has no decent new blood.