Really! Where'd you get your crystal ball? In 2007, pretty much every single Republican and conservative I knew, and I knew plenty, thought that the nomination of such a lame candidate as Johh McCain -- snort! -- wasn't going to happen in our lifetime!
Timid, scared, beaten, submissive, cringing, shivering in terror -- THAT is the conservative/Republican mindset that so instantly reacts negatively to third party options.
REALITY: Even if the third party LOSES, we all win IF that third party split does what it did to Clinton both times, and relegates him to plurality status where a clear majority rejected the sitting president. Just such a president was Bill Clinton and HE WAS WEAK, thank God!!
People -- many of whom are demoralized so much that they fall for the MSM lie that Clinton was "popular" even though BOTH TIMES the majority rejected him at the ballot box -- whine and have pity-parties over the fact that Clinton won, never remembering that Clinton was STEAMROLLED by the Republican Revolution and impeached -- he was weak, weak, weak in office BECAUSE enough people voted third party to rob him of power.
Conservatives/Republicans need to STOP cowering and shivering in fear, and RISE TO VICTORY.
Our governing institutions no longer serve their designed purposes. Does congress actually legislate or does it enable the executive to make arbitrary regs/law? Does congress conduct oversight of the agencies it created? Does congress serve to secure our inalienable rights? Does congress or Obama determine spending? The senate has voted to give Obama the treaty power. What were our governing institutions are now ruling institutions totally detached from the people and states.
Institutions designed for free government have been corrupted into forms that do the opposite; they serve to enable and condone tyranny.
But, if you insist on involving another distinct interest, here is the take of our Framing generation: States, The Natural Second Party.