I've said for years that we in the US need a multiplicity of parties as in other countries...such as Israel. Then we could join one that more closely reflects our views and have a rollicking good time making alliances at voting time. It is weird having Tom DeLay and John McCain and Arlen Spector in the same party...just as it is weird having Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton in the same party. It makes people use the terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' in stupid, awkward ways!