“They are going to organize for 2012, but they might have a candidate to write in this year.”
If it is Thomas Sowell, count me in.
It's the Alan Keyes problem: never run for anything you can win, because then you have to make tough choices, even on the things you ran on. For ex., Reagan had to forget about shrinking government and completely reneged on trying to eliminate the DoE or DoED. Later, he agreed to a modest tax increase. All that was to obtain bigger objectives---rebuilding the economy, defeating the Soviets.
Many of the people we admire are not pols, nor cannot be pols, because the minute they "lost their purity" by voting (say) for a tax bill, or against energy, or whatever, they'd lose large numbers of those who support them because they are "pure."