Keystone will become a republican officeholder from Pennsylvania. It's just a question of time. He represents so much the hawkish rep establishment and he seems to be extremely involved in politics, his thread 10 years ago about PA13 was impressive.
Mike Assad was a poster and is now running for Congress, but I don't know him at all.
And I don't think there are politicians on this forum. But I'm probable wrong.
There are several definitions for "establishment." I guess I fit into it in certain contexts. In others, definitely, definitely not.
Thanks for the compliment about the PA 13 thread. Compliments on it are very rare.
And we do have at least one actual politician/elected official here: muon.