Given these three as my choices, I’d have to vote 3rd Party on this one.
To by clear, I don’t advocate a third party move in 2012.
For a third party to be successful, it must develop from the grass roots between elections. It may take from one to three election cycles before it is viable enough to push nationwide candidates.
What is important, is that we face what reality is. While we’re not going to launch a successful presidential bid from a third party in 2012, a third party will have to emerge before Conservative ideals can be championed in earnest from a political party in the United States.
The Republican party has no interest in doing it.
We either face that and resolve to fix that by developing another party, or we simply let Conservatism die.
I personally prefer the former, not the later.