Call me a cynic but I don't see it happening. I'm Libertarian enough to want it, but I'm also realist enough not to expect it to happen that way. Not a shattering. Not an immediate change.

What I want to happen is for the Tea Party to formally split from the Republican Party. I don't want them to win anything. I want them to be taken just seriously enough to crack the perception that elected officials at the federal level need to belong to one of the Big Two. I'm willing to accept them taking a few seats in Congress to get across the message that other parties are viable and that voting off Big Two party lines isn't a waste.