There's the rub. Where the hell is the leader? And the other poster is correct. Lincoln won because the vote was split four ways.
Perhaps what Rush should be doing is funding/growing the Green Party, to split the leftist vote.
You cannot be serious on this. If the Green Party was viable then it would do it on its own. You could change your sentence to Socialist, Farmer-Labor, Prohibition, American, Socialist Labor, or Single-Tax. (These were the recognized third party associations in 1924.)
Another analogy would be Eisenhower funding the Romanians in WWII in order to beat the Germans.
The primary premise in this tread is a new party, not modifying any existing party.