I may not have agreed with Ed some time on may issues, I respect the man for his ability to speak his mind and stick to it and the reasons behind it. Sounds like a good idea, don’t think it will be anything close to conservative but anything right now would be an improvement
(It was about some question he didn't understand on Church teaching that he mentioned as an aside to a caller on his WABC radio show, probably early 90s.)
To be fair and not create a center party of fickle swing voting politicians it would be better to divide the political spectrum into 4 parties, not 3. From left to right the top vote getters would likely be the Socialists, Democrats, Republicans, and Conservatives. A law that reserved a small but equal fraction of the seats to the top 4 vote getting parties might induce that. Or a public campaign finance law that granted equal amounts to the 4 top parties would help. I’m not a fan of public financing but we need some incentive. Monopolies of any kind are bad and duopolies not much better.