Cox seems like a good enough guy, and obviously conservative (I did check his website one time). I can’t see why he shouldn’t have a place at the table.
I like Cox too but he should run for Senate against Dick “Eddie Haskell” Durbin and not divide conservative presidential votes and possibly help a pro-abort cross-dresser like Giuliani to need fewer votes to get delegates. Also the only way a conservative can be nominated and elected in Illinois with the absolute corruption that is the standard of what passes for a GOP here is by self-financing. Cox can do that and, I believe, he has a good biography and correct stands on the issues. We need to thin the herd of POTUS candidates in the GOP right after Fred Thompson announces.