What I don’t like about this thread is that Lubavichers have succeeded in moving the playing field and making us focus only on whether a dead person can be Mashiach. The implication being that if we were to agree that Mashiach can come from the dead, we would all be OK with the LR being a candidate.
Well I would not be OK with it. As I have written in the past, the LR does not qualify on any count. Furthermore, with a very large majority of yir’ei Shomayim not considering the LR a tzaddik yesod olam, he automatically doesn’t qualify.