Joe, you have a good point. Perot was NOT a third party candidate in the traditional sense of the word. He tried to form a party around his candidacy after the fact but it has proven a miserable failure. Without the ascendancy of a similar fluke of a candidate, they're never going to hit Perot levels.
"Without the ascendancy of a similar fluke of a candidate, they're never going to hit Perot levels."
The thing about politics is you just never know. That "fluke" candidate could be waiting in 2008.
The way both the major partys are going, that fluke of a candidate could come into play fairly easy in 2008.