Just which candidate do you think Wallace drew votes away from? You can give Humphries the electoral votes of every state that Wallace ran in, and he still wouldn’t have won the election.
But besides that, do you think that the voters who voted for Wallace would have had their electoral goals better met if Humphries won the election? The Wallace voters voted against Nixon for one reason, and one reason only: they refused to vote for the party that freed the slaves.
Again, what benefit is it to the conservative movement to have a pro-abortion, pro-gay, ACORN-backed radical socialist giving Obama’s agenda a veneer of bipartisanship? Hell, I’d MUCH rather the Democrat win half a term and be thrown out in 2010 by a real American than see Scuzzypalooza lock in a communist seat in NY 23rd for the rest of her career.
Again, this isn’t like Perot the Independent vs. Bush the Republican; it’s like Hillary Clinton the Republican v. Ronald Reagan the Conservative.
But if you’re so infected with Battered Wife Syndrome that you’ll take whatever assaults the socialist wing of the Republican Party crams down your throat, then you’ll end up with two socialist parties. Capitulating to the enemy is no way to win in politics.