The Fitzgerald inquiry and Labor's victory under Wayne Goss brought this creaky edifice crashing down, reducing the Liberals to a tiny party of the Gold and Sunshine coasts.
For instance, there is a countdown clock for 7-Eleven Day on slurpee.com, along with an offer of a "tiny party hat" that can be downloaded and printed out.
They are simply bitter that an upstart politician from a tiny party has deprived them of the presidency, and are determined to cut him down to size.
Instead of turning his attention to the struggling economy and weak currency, Mr Ponta has begun talks with a tiny party, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania.
The court decided that a tiny party, Christian Democracy (DC), had a right to stand.
Yet choosing another unknown as leader of a tiny party creates an uphill struggle for attention.
The Falange remained a tiny party, dependent on subsidies from Benito Mussolini's Italy for its survival.
His biggest handicap is that, in a huge and diverse country that can be governed only by coalition, he belongs to a tiny party.A further contender might be Anthony Garotinho, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, who fares reasonably in the polls.
Between 1967 and 1976, surviving a poor performance in the 1970 general election, he turned the Liberals from a tiny party of six MPs into a small one of 11.
The man he has installed to study ways of modernising the Mexican constitution, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, is a storied politician whose career includes a stint as president of the PRI, another as congressional leader of the left-of-centre Party of the Democratic Revolution, the PRD, and even a bid for the presidency as the candidate of a tiny party.
