Ross Perot, a super-wealthy, third-party candidate making his first run for the office.
As for a possible third-party candidate, as suggested by Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, that's not going to happen.
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Some of these social conservatives are nonetheless so appalled by Mr Giuliani that they threaten to back a third-party candidate if he wins the Republican nomination.
Go even further back and Ross Perot, founder of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems, unsuccessfully ran for U.S. president as a third-party candidate in 1992 and 1996.
"They missed a real opportunity, certainly, in Virginia with my listeners who say they want someone who is fiscally conservative, " said Thompson, who added that he's considering voting for a third-party candidate.
She made a spectacular intervention in the recent congressional election in upstate New York by rejecting the official Republican and backing a third-party conservative candidate.
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Americans Elect, a much-heralded internet-based project to find a third-party centrist presidential candidate to challenge the dominant two, has flopped.
It will be fending off a social-conservative third party that might run an anti-abortion candidate like Gary Bauer just to make a point.
In Minnesota, Norm Coleman was hoping to run against Al Franken and Franken's incendiary comments in the past- but there's a third party candidate who's using all his venom on Norm Coleman in Oregon.
Gordon Smith has a - Republican incumbent Gordon Smith has a conservative third party candidate that's hurting the Republican in Oregon as well.
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