Duncan Hunter is my candidate of choice .. but it's not likely that that's going to happen either, is it? So, since none of us is living in Perfect World® put the pragmatist in me in Fred Thompson's column.
No, it is unlikely that either Hunter or Thompson is going to get the nod (unless Thompson's campaign begins catching fire).
I think Ron Paul has far more in common with Hunter then do any of the other candidates.
Duncan Hunter is a patriot. PaleoPaulie is Al Qaeda's mouthpiece in America.
Duncan Hunter is a combat veteran and has a son in Iraq. PaleoPaulie is a long time enemy of the American military.
PaleoPaulie wants to commission modern day pirates with letters of marque and reprisal (perhaps armed with blunderbusses and flintlocks and sailing in spiffy new sailing sloops: Avast, Matey!!!) while Duncan Hunter has a marked preference for the use of the US military (including the Air Force although the Air Force is concededly not mentioned in the Constitution).
Duncan Hunter beleves in DOING something to stop abortion on a federal level. PaleoPaulie does not. Dr. Demento poses for holy pictures only and then would abandon the issue to the states.
Just four major distinctions on three very major issues.
Wasn't paleoPaulie an Air Force physician? Maybe he's no constitutionalist virgin after all!