Utter nonsense! Any significant third party showing will take away from the Republican ticket and hand the race to the Democrats. Just as Ross Perot did...twice!
The only exeption that I could see to your logic would be for Bloomberg to run with any VP on a 3rd party ticket.
No pub that matters in electoral vote count would vote for that man, and many liberal independents who will otherwise hold their collective nose and pull the lever for hillary just might...
Bloombeg/gore or Gore/Bloomie would be a dream.
but thats all that it is...