aimed at the liberal elite."

Boy is that statement telling especially on this blog lately.

for a project of that sort.

There are reasons to believe that the Democratic Party is going to sink before 2012 regardless of who gets nominated, starting with mandatory purchase of junk private health insurance posing as a "national health plan". I think HRC would take the party down fastest and hardest, but that's just my opinion.

I think the progressive movement is going to need a lifeboat before 2012 and perhaps sooner.

A party who gets people to vote it into total control of the Beltway for the purpose of change and delivers for K Street instead is going to see it's name turned to radioactive mud no matter how much support they get from the media and from corporate donors. Pork awarded to corporations is no longer coming from our hides, it's our internal organs and I doubt it will take even the low information voter a year to realize that what they are getting is NOT what they voted for.

It's time for a working group to start looking at the mechanics of building a national political party for the time when one can build a new major party instead of a new minor third party. (which I regard as wasted effort)

I suggest you read the Wikipedia article on the Whig Party and see if the description of that party's end reminds me of any political party you know.

Someone suggested "New Democratic Party" (NDP as in Canada) as a name for this project. It's as good as any.