Reply #10: Absolutely. If he runs as an R, he'll get lost in the primary shuffle--

[TwilightGardener]

he has a major "base" problem, and he's too late for that anyway, IMO. But as an "I", he can take his time (no primaries, although there is work to get on the ballot/get delegates, I guess--Unity '08 is calling him!) and would get attention equal to the D and R nominees. Instant celebrity, equal press coverage. And I think he would have a fairly broad appeal, but would draw more from D's and I's, less so from the R's (the 30-percenters would never go for him, obviously). I can't think of any big skeletons he might have, aside from the totally unproven voting-machine thing, a divorce, and some allegations that he makes his female staffers cry, and not in a good "Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan" way. I don't know that he could actually win, but yeah, he could hurt us.