Or not. His kind of middling, bland country club type is not going to be very persuasive with a steaming, angry electorate you're going to see in 2012, after 5 years of climbing unemployment. He's the perfect guy for 000bama to run against; he can't excite anyone, not even Minnesotoans.
I would vote for him in the GE and may even give a dollar or two. In an election cycle like 2000, he might have won. But, MN Nice is no match for Chicago Thug.
Country Club Republican - sorry to say. We do not yet have any Conservative running or planning to run (yet) to save America...