Minor Parties

Tea Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement
The Tea Party movement is an American populist political movement that is generally recognized as conservative and libertarian.The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, a protest by colonists who objected to a British tax on tea in 1773. Pro is They have injected some sense of debate into the "big government is awesome" trance that the Republicans and Democrats have fallen under.
Con is that they made Sarah Palin their prominent figure

Whig party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Whig_Party
The national Modern Whig Party was started in the most unlikely of locations the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan by U.S. troops.