Sanitarium- once one of the far right's, if you will, 'more promising kooks'- would be an awful and an unrealistic choice for the Republicans, about the only thing I could say in his favor is that we might get a baffling Tolkien reference out of him ( he once made a bizarre analogy between the situation in the Middle East and the hobbits' quest to destroy the one ring in Mt. Doom) every so often..