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I certainly wouldn't trust most of the "true conservatives" you have in mind. Keyes won't even run for a low level office because he would actually have to GOVERN (i.e., "compromise"---gee, there's that dirty word that all the "outs" always get to accuse the "ins" of doing, until they get in.)

Forbes? Good guy---totally uncharismatic. I heard him two years ago in Dayton. He can't win any race, period. But I'd love to see him try to win a House or Senate seat, but, dang, that's probably below him, isn't it?

Ever wonder why ol' Patsy doesn't run for a House seat? Then he'd have to vote, and COMPROMISE, becuase to get a pro-life bill he'd have to give in on trade; or to get an anti-Israel bill, he'd have to give in on guns. See, the problem is, that to get elected, a conservative MUST APPEAR to be not quite so conservative. Reagan was an exception, running in the midst of a foreign policy crisis and an economic depression. But note that even he wouldn't have been "pure enough" for the Freepers, because he refused to do anything about abortion, or gun control, and gave up on taxes after 1986. Read his bio, "An American Life."