Yeah. Hillary.
I have encountered three types of Paulites:
1) Libertarians (small or large L) who are primarily looking at Paul because they are for minimal government. They’re for Paul because the GOP had 1994-2006 in charge of Congress and failed to deliver the GOP promise of less government. I don’t think these will vote for Hillary. Usually they either vote Libertarian, Constitution Party, or GOP.
2) Anti-war Dims who are having an amusing time screwing about with the GOP primary process. They’re going to Paul also because they’re mad at Nancy Pelosi for not doing their bidding. These will vote for Hillary or any other Dim.
3) Angry “paleo-cons” who are just mad at ‘neo-con’ policies, want our troops on the border and not Iraq, hold ill feelings towards Israel, or are upset about ‘fiat currencies.’ (emphasis on ‘or’ there, usually it’s one of the above and not all). I have no idea what these guys will do. The people I know who fit this bill stayed home in ‘06.
IMO that’s two of three categories that fits some sort of conservative definition or at least are *not* natural Dim voters.
The sad thing is I can see Paul hanging on long enough that the nomination of a total RINO is inevitable, whereupon the groups 1) and 3) will decide that their fringe position is justified (rather than caused _by_) the fractured conservative vote.
If we could get all the conservatives pulling in one direction (preferably FRed IMO) we could get a candidate we could be proud of.