Charles Percy 1968?

As it says on the tin. What would happen if Charles H. Percy went ahead with his rumored Presidential campaign in 1968? Would he be the center of the anti-Nixon faction? Or even going with an ATL wherein Nixon doesn't run, how does he fair against folks like Romney and Reagan in the primaries? Can he beat Humphrey in the general?

What would his Presidency look like?
 
For Percy to have a chance, what I think you need is this: First, Romney has to realize that after his "brainwashing" gaffe, he has no chance of getting the nomination, and Rockefeller has to realize that he himself has no chance, either--the Right just hates him too much. So they both have to unite behind Percy, making him the sole GOP candidate to the left of Nixon. Second, Nixon has to be weakened on his right flank by an earlier Reagan candidacy than that of OTL. Even then, the odds would be against Percy. (For one thing, some moderate Republicans, like Eisenhower, were satisfied with Nixon [1], and in particular many would back him if there was any danger of Reagan winning the nomination.) But Percy at least has in his favor that unlike Rockefeller and Romney, he supported Goldwater in 1964 after the latter had won the nomination. This might make him a bit more aceptable to conservative Republicans than Romney or Rockefeller were.

[1] "Dwight Eisenhower, for one, wrote that he was 'puzzled' by the 'implication that Nixon is *not* a moderate. Certainly I always beleived him to be one." Geoffrey Kabaservice, *Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party,* p. 245. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZlRpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA245
 
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A "Dovish" Republican administration? Faster pullout from Vietnam? Less patronage of Israel?
 
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