Shilling should get his feet wet, help Scott in his campaign and learn about being a candidate, change to an "R", and then enter some race down the line. The deadline to have registered "R" was earlier in August, so Shilling would have to run as an Independent. This would be tantamount to giving the seat to Coakley, unless republicans left the slate blank - and that has its own problems.
Brown is as much a RINO as Romney. I think we’d stand a better chance with Kurt.