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“...we resist the denigration of traditional marriage, we resist the popular attitudes on abortion...”

While I personally agree, a political party with that as part of its platform will never win a national race in this country.

The Constitution Party is very conservative, of the paleo-conservative type, similar to the 1920s era Republican Party of Harding and Coolidge. Except for their isolationism, there is little in the party's platform the likes of Sarah Palin (a Buchanan supporter in 1996) or Herman Cain would oppose.

Here are their vote totals in the last six elections:

1992 – Howard Phillips and Albion Knight – 43,369 votes.

1996 – Howard Phillips and Herb Titus – 184,820 votes

2000 – Howard Phillips and Curtis Frazier – 98,022 votes

2004 – Michael Peroutka and Chuck Baldwin – 143,630 votes

2008 – Chuck Baldwin and Darrell Castle – 199,750 votes

2012 – Virgil Goode and Jim Clymer – 98,755 votes

As for the Libertarian Party, it doubled their tally for this year's Presidential candidate and received 1.2 million votes, mostly on the coat tails of disgruntled Ron Paul supporters, yet it barely broke 1% of the total electorate.

No third party candidate has ever won a national election, unless you count Abraham Lincoln in 1860. In that case, the Whig Party had disintegrated as the second party, and Lincoln and others cobbled together a replacement second party with remnants of the Whig and Know-Nothing Parties and some disgruntled Democrats. Historically, third parties have helped the two main parties win elections, starting with Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party in 1912, which helped elect Woodrow Wilson; George Wallace's American Independent Party in 1968, which took away enough Southern Democrats to elect Richard Nixon; and Ross Perot's Reform Party, which enabled Bill Clinton to win twice in 1992 and 1996 with a plurality of the vote. In other cases, they are ineffectual even if they have significant vote totals, as with Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace in 1948, who pulled right-wing and left-wing votes from the Democrats, respectively, but who failed to defeat Truman, and John Anderson in 1980, whose RINO campaign did not deter Reagan from winning a landslide.

Good luck to Cain, Palin, and any others who look toward a third party, but historical evidence indicates it will be a near impossible task.

And the Republicans have done so well... stay where you are, I’m moving on...