Having lived through several extremist candidates--Henry Wallace, George Wallace, a pig farmer from Secaucus whose name I forget, Ralph Nader, to   name a few--I can only colclude that this is a singularly dumb way to get anything done (if you exclude getting your name on a ballot as an accomplishment.) Like our system or not, it's the one that exists. If you want to try to change it, the only way that can work is to create a voting bloc inside an existing party.

As far as Ventura is concerned, I don't think Ralph Nader could qualify as the third man in a two-man tag team.