When they were a new “third Party” the Republicans nominated John C. Fremont as their presidential candidate in 1856. He didn’t win, but his candidacy served well as a vehicle to introduce the idea of the Republican Party to the voting public. In the next four years the Republicans gained traction because they were right on the issues of the day and although they have lost badly a few times since, they have won some landslide victories and remained one of the two major parties in America.

 The lesson here is that on their first try, third parties don’t win. But if they are right on the issues they can survive to develop influence. The election of 2016 will be the best third party opportunity in the last 160 years. Nevertheless, a 2016 third party candidacy will fail as well. So, the question for us will become do we walk away and take what is thrown at us; or carefully weigh the results and look to 2020?

 The Democrat wing of the Uniparty is rushing toward nominating either Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren. The Republican wing of the Uniparty is hell bent on nominating the male counterpart to either of these far left, extremist females. Whether it is Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Chris Christie or maybe even Lindsey Graham there will be little difference between the eventual Republican nominee and either Clinton or Warren.

 This means that for us the 2016 presidential election will be a “tails they win, heads we lose,” proposition; and it also means that TEA party movement Americans must make a superhuman effort replace Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Mark Kirk, R-Ill. John McCain, R-Ariz. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska and Pat Toomey, R-Pa with true conservatives and elect a true conservative to the Louisiana seat that will open when Senator David Vitter steps down to run for governor. A strongly conservative Senate can quarantine the virus in the White House.