Strangely enough, 3rd party candidates (those who manage to get at least 5% of the popular vote) have generally hurt the incumbent president, not helped them. The one exception in the last 80 years is Perot in 1996. Virtually every Perot vote was a vote that would have gone to Dole. Clinton still probably would have won, but it would have been MUCH closer.
I think a Bloomberg candidacy would REALLY help the Republican challenger, no matter who that challenger ends up being.
I see McCain really worked too. Now why should conservatives waste their vote on McCain/Romney types? Voting for RINOs accomplishes ... what? If the GOP runs RINOs again for the presidency I'm finished with them. It's time for a new, conservative party to replace them. Let the RINOs become the third party of perpetual losers.
. . . third party . . . .
Third party candidate really worked when Ross perot
ran, did’t it? Gave us Clinton I, cigars and Clinton II.
No thanks.
Quick, tell me one thing Ross Perot promised to do if elected.
Right. Perot attracted a base of voters who identified themselves as “independents” with no clue about what they wanted from government.
Palin/tea party would be as near to doctrinaire conservative as you’ve had since the 1976 Reagan write-in.
In short, imagining that Palin would just be Perot in drag...
Um. No.