...and it'd take serious stumbling by the Democrats for him to win the general... Of course, Obama had similar luck getting his Senate seat, so it's hardly ASB... But, yeah, he'd also be a one-termer, I agree.
Both his campaigning and issues are mediocre to horrible. It takes a seriously racist rural House seat for the wanting Jim Crow back bit to turn Mr Goldbug into a winner.
HTF would being on the Libertarian ticket help him, any more than it won him the Presidency?... He's still a LAME CAMPAIGNER. And libertarian tickets regularly get as thumped here in Texas as the rest of the country.
Well, he'd still be the incumbent Senator. This scenario assumes he's denied renomination in 1990 by the Republican Party, but decides to run as a Libertarian in the general election to hold his seat.