Don’t know yet, we don’t have a ballot. I doubt that ANY candidate this time around would be a viable 3rd-party candidate. Which is what I meant about a “3rd party option”, not that there were no candidates to choose from, just that there was NO candidate on the ballot that had a chance to even win ONE state, much less enough to win the Presidency. We had to pick between McCain and Obama; McCain was destined to lose anyway, but there was no way we could have gotten a 3rd-party candidate elected.
As I said, I don’t see this being a year you can win a 3rd-party presidency. Obama is the incumbent; that gives him a solid base of support, and I can’t imagine he’ll fall below 40% in the election. Anybody we pick on our side will be more conservative than Obama, and probably more conservative than, say, Huntsman or Olympia Snowe. If we then ran a right-wing 3rd-party candidate like Bachmann, especially if they hadn’t been able to win the republican nomination, we’ll be splitting the 60% of the vote we have available to us, which could well allow Obama to win like Clinton won in 1992 with 43% of the vote.
Well said.