There! This will work-not! IMHO, many RP supporters will not vote at all in the Presidential race, while all of the remaining RP supporters who do decide to vote in the Presidential race will end up splitting their votes between Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin. John McCain will truly have to become just like Ron Paul to truly get the majority of RP voters to actually vote for McCain, and this isn’t going to happen.
They have to try.
Of all of Paul’s supporters, I’d say - unscientifically -about 40% were Conservatives and the rest Liberals and Moonbats...
I think McCain will eventually get 70-80% of the conservatives that supported Paul, who realize that living with McCain is far better than an Obama administration. But McCain will get next to none of the Liberals...
So Senator Hatch is basically preaching to the choir.