Only Mr Erbakan's experience and charisma, the theory goes, could hold such a party together.
There is a question Republicans do need to ask: What is it that binds our party together?
Even if Lee manages to hold the party together, he will have accomplished only half his task.
More likely is a power-sharing deal that keeps the party together, even at the cost of continuing internal strains.
He brought the factions of his own party together, moving government toward breakthrough deals and guiding the nation toward points of unity.
Where, because our fans want to have this massive Twitter party together on Tuesday night when we air, they all sit down and watch.
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McCain said he's confident he can bring the party together and said he's not worried that some "very conservative" Republicans don't think he is conservative enough.
Trial lawyers have replaced trade unionists as the party's main paymasters, but they are too few in number (and too busy) to hold the party together in the same way.
Newspaper reports suggested that Mr Clegg and Business Secretary Vince Cable may be preparing to abstain in the vote - due before Christmas - in order to hold the parliamentary party together.
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The last parliament, in which the FJP and the Nour Party together won some 70 percent of the seats, was dissolved in June by a court ruling that found the election law had been flawed.
Providing he can hold his party together and ensure this vote is not seen as a referendum on him - both big ifs - Scotland's First Minister may consider more powers a pretty good consolation prize.
With prospects dim for any Republican support for a health care bill, the Democratic leadership wants to bring liberals, progressives and conservatives in their party together to use its majority in both chambers to pass a bill this year.
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But the ANC's leaders are probably strong enough to resist firebrands such as Julius Malema, the leader of the party's Youth League and a strident supporter of Mr Zuma, and so should be able to keep the party together for now.
Bruno Tabacci is the leader of Centro Democratico, a party that together with the Democractic Party forms the center-left coalition.
That is why Mr Yilmaz is not taken seriously when he predicts that his Motherland Party, together with Mr Ecevit's Democratic Left party, will win an overall majority in April.
In the outgoing parliament, Mr Netanyahu's Likud party, together with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu, have 42 seats.
Indeed, bringing the Welsh Labour Party back together again may prove just as difficult as healing the divisions among Welsh voters.
And I think that's an important step on the road to each party working together on solutions for the American people.
But it is banking on regional parties, mainly Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party which together have 43 members, to help it keep above the half-way mark of 270 in the 540 member house.
Universal Aide played a key role through a third party in getting together 28.
In the Western Cape, the ANC's provincial secretary was stabbed in the neck at a party get-together.
The DPJ and its Peoples New Party coalition partner together have 122 seats, with 56 up for grabs in July.
One of the rebels, George Howarth, told a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday that "hostilities are over" and the party must come together.
Ben Cardin is the victor, and so now the question is whether or not the party can come together as they face a potentially interesting race versus Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, an African-American.
Mr Blair's determination to dictate the Scottish Labour Party's tax policy in this situation seems to violate the entire spirit of how his party has, together with the Liberal Democrats and others, proposed that the Edinburgh parliament should operate.
Wales Labour Party General Secretary Anita Gale urged the party to "pull together and support the conference decision on twinning", but at least one disgruntled party is threatening to challenge the vote in the courts.
He has also courted the unions and party members who, together with the MPs at Westminster, make up Labour's electoral college.
And I hope there'll be a Tory prime minister after the election, but that will depend a great deal on the Conservative Party getting its act together at last.
In the last few weeks, we also came together across party lines to pass a package of tax cuts and unemployment insurance that will spur jobs, businesses and growth.
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It's the sense that the glue that held together the Conservative Party is weakening.
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