Not to mention that we got eight years of Slick out of the deal.
As much as I admire the coalition government model of the Israelis, it seems that America is stuck with a two-party system. Anyone who jumps to a third party is going to be sidelined from the mainstream. We gotta live with the two party system, folks. We can't waste another decade pursuing a Ross Perot pipedream of another third party. It was tried already and failed miserably.