[Brutha]

3--I don't care for that term, it sounds like neo-nazi, and since it's a favorite word of the left (along with teabaggers) to use when attacking republicans, I don't care for it. If it means RINO, then no, they are over and done. But a lot of normal conservatives are being called neo-cons because of that "neo" part, so I'm not sure if the term means what it once did.

NeoCon includes things like being interventionalist and favoring NAFTA. The kind of people that write at the Weekly Standart would be examples of clear neocon ideology.

Well if we went to a 3 party system, it would be pretty easy to go with a Conservative Party, Moderate Party, and Liberal Party.

I don't think that the left right paradigm really get at the issue about what the important policy decisions in the US are about.
Whether you support the rule of law or don't isn't about left vs. right.
Whether you supported the bailout of the banks wasn't about left vs. right either.
Those questions are about power of the elites.

The health care bill would probably also look better if the Pharma industry wouldn't have written part of it.

I think democrats and republicans are going to stop allowing their representatives to revert on their campaign promises once they get in office. MoveOn.Org is already threatening sitting democrat senators that they will try to defeat them next election if they don't swallow Obama's public option. Gay Rights groups are turning on Obama as well for saying he supports gay rights, but not seeming to actually do anything that counts. No matter where you are on the political spectrum, the political parties in this country are not popular right now with their bases.

There still democrats who like Obama despite Obama doing things like trying to get crimeless detention law (or preventative detention) passed and reauthorized the patriot act.

There democrats who complain about conservative bias at the Huffington post when the Huffington post releases an article detailing that the Obama administration tries to prevent a strong public option.

Don't underrate the power of clever political maneuvering and telling people what they want to hear but doing something else when it comes to getting political power.

I predict Sarah Palin will have quite a lot to do with the future of the republican party.

If you take someone like Sarah Palin it is virtually impossible to predict what she will do after being elected.
Remember the debate where she said in effect that to Joe Biden that she's okay with civil unions.

Politics isn't a solo sport and it's not quite clear which kind of people Palin would pick in her team in the case of her being a presidential candidate.
In Alaska she did a lot of kicking out old people and bringing in people she knew before being Governor.
If she tries to do something similar as a presidential candiate and get bunch of other Alaskans in her team I would doubt that it would work out well.

If she doesn't she has to pick alliances with normal Republicans from Washington. Part of that political game is to stick to positions of other people and counting for their support in return.
That can result in enough blunders to prevent her from getting real power inside the party and being a presidential candidate.