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I don’t support Paul’s foreign policy, but I do support his message of liberty through limited government.

I also support his limited-gov't positions. But his appeasement-first, intellecutally bankrupt foreign policy stances immediately disqualify him from consideration in my book.

As far as your contention that RP supporters won't be voting GOP anyway, that may be true from some but it's certainly not true for all. So yes, his going third party could very well affect the general election. If RP goes back on his word and decides to go Ind. hopefully he'll be offset by third party liberals (like Bloomberg) who'll siphon votes away from the Dem nominee.

Point is, the concern in GOP circles about Paul centers not around the primaries but around the general.

As far as your contention that RP supporters won't be voting GOP...

This RP supporter plans to if the nominee isn't named Giuliani.

Admittedly, my teeth would be grinding to have to vote for McCain or the Huckster.

I'm not going to write about those two twerps because I might break my personal rule of only allowing myself one primary candidate per election that I would refuse to vote for in the general.

Of course, I did swear in 2000 I'd never vote for Bush but I finally did anyway. LOL. I'm such a hack. I guess I'm not principled enough. Still, Gore was unthinkable and Buchanan's campaign was incompetent to put it mildly. Anyway, that's my excuse.

But his appeasement-first, intellecutally bankrupt foreign policy stances immediately disqualify him from consideration in my book.

Uh, there's no "appeasement" there buddy. With no foreign aid & no meddling, other countries will have to take care of themselves instead of relying on us to prop up their socialist corrupt governments. Ron Paul still believes in border security and a strong national defense. Any nation that attacks us will be obliterated. There won't be any of this going to the UN or "international community" under Paul.

As far as your contention that RP supporters won't be voting GOP anyway, that may be true from some but it's certainly not true for all. So yes, his going third party could very well affect the general election. If RP goes back on his word and decides to go Ind. hopefully he'll be offset by third party liberals (like Bloomberg) who'll siphon votes away from the Dem nominee.

Paul has said he won't go 3rd party or Independent because he played that game already and it didn't work. But if the GOP loses in the general election, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Paul's supporters are very well-educated on the issues and they are not going to hold their nose for another Republican after watching their candidate get laughed at during the debates and get crapped on by the party elites.

Point is, the concern in GOP circles about Paul centers not around the primaries but around the general.

As long as the GOP reaches out to Paul on some of the issues and let him speak at the convention & get his endorsement, then the GOP will be fine as long as Fred is nominated and he chooses someone with libertarian leanings like Mark Sanford.

” Point is, the concern in GOP circles about Paul centers not around the primaries but around the general.”

If it were a 3 horse race - Huckabee vs Some Dem vs Ron Paul

I’d vote for Paul. That way when later Huckster is using his political capital to get fried food banned, some mouth-breathing huckbot doesn’t tell me that I knew what I was getting when I voted for him, and that I should should shut up.