I believe that any viable Third Party must build itself from the grass roots up,should represent a definite political philosophy,and should begin at State,Local and Congressional levels.Any third party candidacy based on the supposed inregrity or brilliance of the individual candidate (particularly on the Presidential level) is doomed to follow John Anderson,George Wallace,and Ross Perot into the dust bin of history.The Republican Party was a grass-roots third party that arose over the specific issues of slavery and western expansion in the 1800s,formerly called the Free Soil Party. Lincoln was its first elected President,but he was not its progenitor. Granted,this kind of effort would require much more effort and a longer range goal than throwing forward an alternative candidate for President and expecting a mass defection from the existing two-party system,but it could be a more meaningful and long-term method of making an impact.