Just FYI, if Bloomberg runs he's likely to pull more from Democrats than Republicans, and his position on civil rights and civil liberties is no better than theirs (we're talking kinder, gentler Giuliani here). So the end result of a Bloomberg candidacy would probably be a GOP president who by your own reckoning would be a fascist.

I strongly hope he doesn't run. I'm OK with Paul running as his constituency is right-wing "patriots," white racists, and affluent corporate Libertarians, all of whom would otherwise vote for the GOP candidate. (Oh, he's got a few clueless single-issue antiwar liberals on his side, but they're the kind who would otherwise not vote or vote for the Green Party, which I think is running Cynthia McKinney this time.)

Be careful what you ask for with a political realignment, because you might get it. In today's political climate, the third parties are as likely to be openly fascist or otherwise worse than the two main parties as they are to be any better.