McCain/Hillary/Obama as choices really does raise the question: “Does America Need a Conservative Party?”
I think so.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, I can think of NO conservatives with the name and credentials to be able to win the election this November. I wish that weren’t true because this seems to me a great opportunity, quite similar to the 1970 Senatorial election in NYState, when James Buckley ran on the Conservative ticket and beat a liberal democrat and a liberal republican. He had good credentials, and great name recognition, courtesy of his brother. (And, of course, we shouldn’t minimize the fact and enormous advantage that he had me working for him.)
Alas, nobody I can think of will fill the bill this year and actually have a chance of winning - the best any of those I can think of would do would simply assure a walk in the park for the socialist Demodog candidate.