On the right: Norm Ornstein: repub party has moved so far to the right a candidate with Reagan's

[hifiguy]

1. There are three scorpions in the

Repuke bottle. First, the 1% and their supporters be they witting or unwitting. Their guy is Mittens. Second, the religiously insane, who support Frothy and third, the libertarian Randites, i.e., the Ron Paul camp. The 'baggers can be found in all three factions. Multiple scorpions in a bottle tend to all destroy each other. One can only hope.

One might add a fourth group, the diehard neocons, but I think that their brand was damaged too badly by Chimpy and Darth for them to have overmuch sway for a while.