Practically speaking, whatever candidate runs via Unity08 will have to be quite rich in order to coordinate 25,000 signatures in 10 states, with eight months and about a week to go until the convention and no place to gather online candidate signatures of support yet. Is the plan to wait until the last minute so that ordinary citizens can't take the necessary time to collect signatures? Or is Unity08 simply tardy...
... like it's been tardy in closing down comments on the Draft Rules, which it promised to close FOUR months ago. Eight months and a week to go, and the Draft Rules are still simply Draft Rules. When is this step of formalizing the Unity08 rules, necessary for candidates to begin their runs, going to take place? Not soon enough.
So yes, please plan on being quite rich if you want to run through Unity08.