Ron Paul is perhaps one of the best positioned “Republicans” to be able to lead the pubbies out of this total absence of leadership. This is assuming that he himself is not the frontrunner- his foreign policy won’t work with many conservatives- but his domestic/ fiscal policies are looking better and better. I was not a Ron Paul supporter in the pubbie primaries until all of the conservatives had lost, and it was down to Mccain, Huckabee, and Paul, and I then voted for RP. Of course, I later voted against the Kenyan. Paul has a great following- If he could somehow rally his support to a true conservative ( Palin?) he could REALLY do some good.
Your statement implies two things: one, that Paul is not able to do significant good without deferring to "a true conservative," as if he himself is not a true conservative to begin with, but a false one; and two, that somehow libertarian and Constitutionalist conservatives would be willing to just roll over and play dead for "true conservatives."
I'm not playing that game any more.
Either you follow the Constitution--all of it, not just the parts you like--and reduce the size of the Federal government to its Constitutional boundaries, or get out of my way, as I have no use for you.