In the process of bemoaning the accelerated primary schedule, the Wall Street Journal editorial board offers more lame third party hype:

Perhaps it will all turn out for the best this time around. But if the process leaves one or both parties lukewarm about their nominees, it could also open the field for a third party candidate to make a run. This is the scenario that New York’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has been eyeing.

Third-party scenarios are like a**holes — everyone’s got one. But this isn’t 1860; Bloomberg probably won’t run and almost certainly won’t win.