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"If only a third-party (or non-party) candidate who isn't nuts actually ran for President, the electoral equation would change radically."

It would definitely makes things interesting but there does not seem to be anyone out there to meet the challenge right now.

All the prominent "so called" conservative hardliners, currently out there ( like Buchanan , Keyes , etc..), do not have the appeal , nor the money , to make it happen.

Ross Perot made people realize it is possible for a third party to make a serious run for the Whitehouse, but we all seen what happened with him in the end.

Right now, the best we can do is keep GW in the Whitehouse and try and send good conservative Congressmen and Senators to Washington to keep the President in line on some of these "liberal" issues he leans toward.

"If you could pick a non-party candidate to run for President, who would it be?" ---That is a very good question.

Democracy isn't much good at multiple guess questions. The American system has defaulted to two parties, and those two parties frame the issue by the candidates they select. And we are stuck with the binary choice they present.

Unfortunately, as in the present case, it is typically a stretch to call either party's candidate conservative. GWB resembles no other president as much as his predecessor by 40 years, JFK. A Democrat, then--but although JFK is idolized by the party faithful, a real candidate who proposed to be JFK redoux would be--George Bush. Who couldn't get nominated for dog catcher in a Democratic primary, but is odds-on to be the Republican nominee--again.