She got 18% and has every chance to siphon more voters from Sarkozy to build up Front National for the next time around.
When are we going to see an American Conservative party with 18%?
The two-party system is not a constitutional requirement in the US. There is certainly room for a right wing party, a left wing party and the R+D lemmings in the middle, 4 parties.
Further, even in the current political landscape, if the GOP knew that the RINOs do not get automatic endorsements from the conservatives, then they would find candidates that are acceptable to the right wing. Romney is not acceptable. The GOP politburo selected him precisely on the calculus that no matter how squishy-middle he gets, the conservatives will run back like beaten dogs. That arrogance has got to stop.
I don't understand your goal there.
If Axelrod had posted that, proposing a strategy to compartmentalize and marginalize the conservative influence, it would make sense to me.
As a conservative, though, I can't understand why you'd be excited about creating a system where you predict that 82% of the vote would coalesce between the far-left and muddled-middle. What kind of path-straight-to-hell do you think would come out of that?