If the GOP splinters in two, and there's no one left who supports them...

[Barack_America]

...Does it make a sound?

[AZ Mike]

1. Yes.

The sound of a death rattle.

[roguevalley]

9. Yes: Kersplupflzle.

[Zen Democrat]

2. I heard libertarian on Texas radio this morning preaching against John Cornyn.

Saying John Cornyn is a GOP henchman who tried to get the libertarians and Tea Party out of the Texas GOP and failed. Now the Texas Teas are foaming at the mouth and will definitely "Tea-Party" Cornyn for the Senate in 2014. Let's hope Texas has a great candidate (Julian Castro?) who could win that race against a divided GOP, because they will devour their own.

[Schema Thing]

7. ooh, tasty!

[ruffburr]

3. Of course it will-

The sounds of tantrums from petulant children fighting amongst themselves.

[flamingdem]

4. Yesterday the Koch Brothers appeared from behind the curtain

to declare the teaparty as a largely defunct tool.

Thus the sound of splinters in the morning.

[bigwillq]

5. Who do you think these people will vote for?

Democrats?

They will still vote for conservatives, just like we will still vote for liberal-leaning candidates if the Democratic party ever disbanded.

I hope both parties disband. The two-party system has ruined America.

[jeff47]

8. Ah yes, both sides do it.

To answer your question, they don't vote for Democrats. They stay home or vote "none of the above".

[B Calm]

10. You want to see the democratic party destroyed, wow!

[socialist_n_TN]

11. Like it or not, the only thing that's kept the more left leaning.......

Democrats in the fold with the corporatist Democrats are the Republicans and more specifically the Teabagger wing of the Republicans. If they split and that danger is lessened, then the Dems will split too. Either that or the Democratic Party will go back to a more FDR style platform and I don't expect that to happen.

That's my analysis anyway. IF the Republicans actually split into two parties, the Dems will too shortly after.

[bigwillq]

12. Yup. What you said.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. So if both the Democrats and Republicans split,

then I envision the right-leaning Democrats merging, or forming a coalition, with the left-leaning (for their party) Republicans, much like what has occurred in Japan when factions within a major party split.

[socialist_n_TN]

16. Yep that will probably happen........

Then we'll probably actually see where the country really stands. if a left populist "Progressive Worker's Party" forms AND is able to get it's message out, then Americans will actually have a choice. We'll see what they choose.

[barnabas63]

6. Don't get your hopes too high....

Come next November, there will be plenty of people come out of the woodwork and vote republican. The "meltdowns" are a regular occurrence, and don't seem to bother the die-hards.

[Fumesucker]

14. Bingo

Reports of the demise of the Republican party are an exaggeration, to mangle a misquotation of Twain.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

15. They still have 7 followers on Twitter. I've been "conversing" with them.

It turns out you can fit a lot of stupidity into 140 characters.