Every election groups of crackpots cleave off into new and old third parties. Pat knows this well, as he tried to elect Gore in 2000 by this route.
Besides who needs a new one. There are already lots of third parties to choose from.
America First Party
Christian Liberty Party (American Heritage Party)
America’s Independent Party
American Patriot Party
American Party (1969)
Independent American Party
Conservative Party of New York
Alaskan Independence Party
Florida Whig Party
Americans Elect
Citizens Party
Independence Party of America
Modern Whig Party
Reform Party of the United States of America
Unity Party of America
Working Families Party
Labor Party
Socialist Party USA
Communist Party USA
Socialist Labor Party of America
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Progressive Labor Party (USA)
Socialist Equality Party (United States)
Socialist Workers Party
World Socialist Party of the United States
Workers Party, USA
Workers World Party
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (freedomroad.org) (Note: both Freedom Road Socialist Organization factions are the result of a 1999 split in the original party)
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (frso.org)
Freedom Socialist Party
Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Socialist Action
Socialist Alternative
U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization
American Populist Party
Boston Tea Party
Jefferson Republican Party
Objectivist Party
Populist Party of America
American Reform Party
American Nazi Party (revived)
National Socialist Movement
American Third Position Party
La Raza Unida Party
Prohibition Party
Pirate Party of the United States
United States Marijuana Party
You forgot the Peace and Freedom Party.
-—Besides who needs a new one. There are already lots of third parties to choose from.-—
We don’t need a new third party. We need a new first party.
So why did Clinton win?
And who’s to say a STRONG candidate won’t run under one of the parties you listed?
First of all, I have serious doubts Romney gets the nomination. He has not surged above mid-20’s all year. Romney actually had a better chance in 2008 because Romneycare was not a big issue in 2008. After Obamacare was passed into law on March 19, 2010, Romneycare has come into focus as the model used by Obamacare, mandates and all. Romney could’nt even beat a pudgy, short and balding old maverick dude in 2008. Fair or not the Mormon thing is another negative factor in real world. Romney will lose Iowa, SC, FL. He may eake out a win in NH. That is not exactly a thunderball of momentum in making.
The Republican party was a third party that split from the Whigs and in less than ten years won the presidency.
Of course, we got a civil war and lost a lot of freedoms even under Lincoln, but at least they achieved their abjective, albeit through circumstances, of ending slavery.
But even back then the Dems didn’t like their slaves taken away.