The way I see it, the best conservative is Duncan Hunter, but he has gained no traction and it doesn’t seem like he has tried to hard. That leaves Fred Thompson as a VERY CLOSE second (CFR is crap but we’re stuck with it until the Supreme Court decides to overturn it). Everyone else on your list is pretty much unacceptable.
(Oh, and the Ron Paul wingnut contingent here will probably start complaining that you left the only “true” constitutionalist off the list.)
“CFR is crap but we’re stuck with it until the Supreme Court decides to overturn it”
Overturn it? Hell, they codified it.
I'm a Hunter guy myself, but I've got to say, Ron Paul is perfect on all these issues, is he not? (Please correct me if I'm wrong- I'm not a Ron Paul platform expert.)
The deal killer with Paul is his naive undertanding of Islam- but as far as domestic policy goes, I like him, and I have for years in fact.