biology and physics righties.

It's hard to draw from fields that your acknowledged base is openly hostile too. With the moronic outright denial of facts like evolution, climate change and the age of the Universe you're not going to gain a lot of converts that actually understand how science and technology works.

The tech sector might not be as difficult for them because the average tech worker is pretty far removed from the quantum mechanics, also denied by a good chunk of the fundie brigade, that makes their stuff function but overall tech employees tend to be a little too bright to fall for the charade of conservatism. They might have a better time with Libertarianism because greed and overall assholic behavior seems to cross all vocations.

"Conservatarian" has seemingly just been coined by the Chron.

the few techie friends I have that lean right are mostly of the ron paul variety.

I've been in software development for two decades and have worked the entire peninsula from the Silicon Valley to the Embarcadero. While there is a VERY strong small-L libertarian streak among techie types (they tend to subscribe to the "leave me the fuck alone" worldview), these are also geeks at heart. They understand the nuances and issues that come along with a corporate controlled world, they almost universally reject fundamentalist and evangelist religious movements, and the anti-science crowd is joke fodder to them. There is no way that the tech world is going to embrace the party that actively promotes all three of these groups.

That said, there is certainly an opportunity for specific candidates like Rand Paul to make inroads with techies, because many of his libertarian ideals do match up with some of the techie types, but there's enough "gotchas" in Paul's stances that will keep many away (his ardent opposition to abortion, for example). And even if he does attract some techie voters, there's a HUGE difference between supporting a handful of libertarian-ish Republicans, and supporting the Republican party in general. Even if they manage to wring out a few votes, it's safe to say that techies will NEVER be party line Republican voters. Too much of their platform is anti-knowledge and anti-freedom.

Mozilla's CEO was just pushed out the door because he made ONE donation to an anti-gay ballot initiative, and that move was loudly cheered throughout the tech community. I just can't see that same community rallying around a political party that uses homophobia as one of its core planks.