The last 2 presidential elections, I looked at The Constitution Party website. Ron Paul would be their ideal candidate, it seems. They are very conservative on domestic issues. They, like Ron Paul, are completely out of touch with reality on foreign affairs.
Pat Buchanan effectively destroyed the last real viable attempt to develop a third party, and that was when he took over Ross Perot’s Reform Party. Buchanan managed to bankrupt it and put it out of business.
A third party cannot just rise up around an individual or around a single issue. That is doomed to failure. Developing a third party into a viable force takes time and money.
As one thread indicated yesterday, some 40% of voters consider themselves conservatives. That 40% is greater than the numbers of either current major party. That 40%, however, just doesn’t know how to utilize their numbers. The Tea Party movement was a viable force, but it proclaimed that it would not develop into a political party. A viable third party needs that kind of movement, however, to at least get it started. Such a developing party may need a decade to evolve into a political force.
A viable Third Party can only come from mass defections from current GOP politicians who are fed up with the Party.