[Melchior]

With any luck McCain will be the nominee. The result will be the call for a Conservative convention and the start of a legitimate third party movement that has a true ideoloogical base.

[dinoparty]

That is a recipe for permanent irrelevance.

[Jim Noble]

The result will be the call for a Conservative convention and the start of a legitimate third party movement that has a true ideoloogical base.

And with your 15% of the former Republican party vote, what will you do?

[CommerceComet]

The result will be the call for a Conservative convention and the start of a legitimate third party movement that has a true ideoloogical base.

The only way that is going to be successful is if simultaneously a large liberal party were to split away from the Democrat Party. Personally, I would rather see four major parties: conservative, moderately conservative, moderately liberal, and liberal. In my mind, four such parties would better represent the views of the country than the two existing ones.

[FastCoyote]

[The result will be the call for a Conservative convention and the start of a legitimate third party movement that has a true ideological base.]

Not a Third Party, a Shadow Party within the Republican Party that holds its own convention, puts up its own candidates.

[RoadTest]

When was the last time a third party elected a President? I’m not too familiar with American history.