Will Libertarians and Tea Party merge to form a larger 3rd party in the coming years?

[Madspoon743]

If such a party would form as an alternative to both major parties, we in America would in all likelihood be facing a situation whereby coalition governments would have to be formed in order to put together any governing majority. Politics then would be more like European politics than we in America have been accustomed to for a very long time.

That scenario would hold true, I submit, unless the new party would supplant the current Republican party as the opposition party to the Democrats - a prospect that I consider to be unrealistic to seriously expect.