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I'll go out on a limb here, and predict that they will not nominate Ron Paul, and that the federal government will continue to expand under the next adminsitration.

Here's what's going to happen over the course of the election:

Paul and his supporters will continue to be attacked by the establishment right (GOP/conservative elites)
Paul himself will be denied to speak at the convention, his supporters will continue to be portrayed as a bunch of leftists kooks even though we all know it's bunk
These same elitist hacks are going to whine and scream at the prospect of Paul running as an independent or 3rd party candidate
Paul will decline, go back to running for his Congressional seat, and the same GOP/conservative elites are going to support Peden
Paul overwhelmingly wins his Congressional seat, enough of his supporters will write-in Paul's name or stay home, Hillary Clinton will become President, and there will be hundreds of threads posted here about how "PAUL COST US THE ELECTION! HE'S A TRAITOR!

Can't wait for the election to begin.

Here's what's going to happen over the course of the election:

EEE, I'm surprised at you.

I plan to win. Yeah, it's uphill. But we can win this thing. There are several scenarios that could allow it to happen. And there are some intangibles that can really help him.

I do agree that treating RP badly is extremely bad politics for the GOP, something that can poison the party's prospects for decades possibly.

When your party has spent like a drunken sailor and you libel the only small-government candidate in the race and with the ground organization and funding to compete, you are planting seeds of genuine bitterness and you will reap what you've sown. And you will have utterly repudiated your small-government ideology, namely the Reagan-Gingrich philosophy that won Congress for us after 43 years in the minority. This prospect of bitterness is especially true when so many RP supporters are venturing into politics for the first time. Screw those kids over and they won't forget it in coming elections.

And if the GOP thinks that Fear Of Hillary in 2008 is going to work any better than Fear Of Nancy did in 2006, they'd better think again before it's too late. I know we're the Stupid Party but that's just brain-dead. This party needs both some new direction and a return to its roots in liberty and small-government. Continuing this Bushism is a guaranteed loser.