Rank the 3rd place 3rd parties

[H. Ross Peron]

Would Vote For:
1. Progressive Party (1924)-One of the best political parties in American history with a solid platform and great candidate
2. Free Soil Party-First anti-slavery party to exercise a practicable influence in American politics as well as have a good strategy for its elimination.
3. Liberty Party-The first anti-slavery party in general but seem to have been pretty naïve/impracticable about it.
4. People's Party-A great political movement that stood for government taking a strong role in the public's interest. However, their rural focus was mistaken and I'm skeptical of their free silver doctrine.
5. Greenback Party-Similar to above, but more so with regards to their inflationism.

Generally Positive:
6. Socialist-Probably wouldn't have ever voted for them (at least until their later years when that was immaterial since they tried working within the Democratic Party) at least on a national level, but nonetheless a party that took a principled stand for the working-class.
7. Reform Party-Perot hardly was a progressive candidate but he at least was a good corrective to the neoliberalism of both major parties.
8. Union Party-A distinct mix of the good and bad-ie both Huey Long economic populism as well as quasi-fascist tendencies.
9. Socialist Labour Party-One must admire their tenacity in advocating their particular brand of Marxism if nothing else.

Generally Negative:
10. National Democratic Party-Not a fan of laissez-faire Bourbon Democrats.
11. Greens-Represents everything wrong with the modern left including its quasi isolationistic pacifism, anti-science stances, elitism etc. as well as ensuing Bush's election in 2000.
12. Anti-Masonic-Rather overly paranoid imo, although their more nationalistic tendencies as well as their role in pioneering the development of modern political parties are a positive.
13. Prohibition Party-Not supportive of Prohibition.

Bad:
14. Progressive Party (1948)-A well-meaning party led by an able reformist, but also highly dangerous due to being dupes of Moscow at the height of the Cold War and undermining Truman's candidacy.
15. Libertarian Party-I disagree with virtually all tenets of Libertarian ideology, especially since the party itself represents a particular extreme variant of it

Terrible:
16. American Independent Party-Least bad of the various racist/Anglo-Saxon supremacist parties since Wallace at least had some populist tendencies and opposed Vietnam.
17. Constitutional Union Party-A bunch of useless Moderate Heroes, ignored the great moral question of the day
18. States' Rights Party-Bunch of terrible Dixiecrats
19. States' Rights Democratic Party-See above. Additionally it should be remembered that unlike the AIP, the Dixiecrats were a largely urban, middle-class movement that essentially was a direct ancestor of the Tea Party.
20. Nullifier Party-A treasonous lot dedicated to States' Rights dogma and sectionalism.
21. American (Know Nothing) Party-A horrible bunch of anti-Catholic and xenophobic bigots. Would have deprived a large portion of the American population of basic civil rights.
22. Straight-Out Democrats-Neo-Confederate party that wished to reestablish white supremacy and overturn Reconstruction in the South
23. Southern Democratic Party-The single worst party in American history bar none, being dedicated to nothing less than the destruction of the Union and the perpetuation and expansion of the institution of human slavery.