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

[Media Bias Watcher]

Never will these two merge, their agenda's are quite different in all areas other than being fiscally responsible.

[Me First]

I don't think they will merge - but I do believe the Tea Party will split off from the Republican Party. I think that we'll see a huge shift to 3rd party support over the coming years. I'm headed that way.

[Cindy L.G.]

Yes, I think they should do that. Their symbol can be the vaginal ultrasound on a cross.

[Amateurbattle380]

If the guys with tears in their eyes telling me how we need Jesus to guide our way in politics do not have a say I would be all for the rest of the TEA party attributes you mentioned.

[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.

[robzuc97]

"constitution, small government, fiscal responsibility, free market capitalism, and low taxes." This should be what we are all most interested in since what they do in Washington affects us all. How many know that Senate Democrats added on to the NDAA a provision that only veterans whom are "financially capable" may purchase a firearm? I must have missed all the new "crazy veterans with guns" stories of late... This harkens back to the post-Vietnam era stereotypes of the 1980's which saw such films as "Rambo" being categorized as "a veteran film"!