What it Would Mean to Create a Third Party

Farley has it right, and mentions the not-unimportant detail that the Whig-to-GOP transition was aided by a violent Democrat-led insurrection that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans and the prohibition of the GOP's opponents from participating in politics for over a decade. As disappointing as Obama has been, I'm not sure I want to follow Nader into Antietam.