"Third party will never win, I am not bashing you I am simply stating truth."
The Republican Party was a third party once.
It replaced the Whig Party, which died out because it lost most of its supporters.
Third parties CAN win, they just have to come at the right time and have the right issues, and people have to be mad and frustrated enough at one or both parties to vote for a third party.
The Reform Party had a shot at becoming a real, viable third party. It fell apart for a variety of reasons, but the lesson from those reasons isn't that third parties can never win, it is that third parties have to form themselves properly and have the proper set of issues and goals.
>The Republican Party was a third party once.
>It replaced the Whig Party, which died out because it lost most of its supporters.
The Republican Party was NEVER a third party. Your second sentence belied your first:
[The Republican Party] REPLACED the Whig Party...
The Republican Party was one of the two major parties AS it came into existence.