Just please, please, please no Independent conservative candidates. Pretty please...
(entrenched personal opinion of 230RN>) On the other hand, I would be glad to see a liberal Independent candidate, although since they are all in lockstep, I can't imagine finding one different enough from the lemming herd to set up as an Independent. To put it bluntly, I don't think there are any independent thinkers among the left clique. (<entrenched personal opinion of 230RN)
Maybe the Republican Dirty Tricks Circle can engineer a way to put up a pseudo-hyper-liberal Independent candidate. It is easy to imagine the Democratic Dirty Tricks Circle have already set up pseudo-conservative candidates in previous cycles.