Silver Bullet
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Your argument will become relevant just as soon as Ron Paul announces that he is no longer a Republican and is the nominee of some third party.
Absolutely correct. It's exasperating to see all the posts trying to compare Paul in 2008 with Perot in 1992. Paul isn't running as a third party! Voting for him in the primary is not giving the Democrat an extra vote !
The only related issue I had to watch for was a hypothetical situation where another excellent candidate is running in the Primary, but was just a few percentage points behind a much less qualified Republican. For example, let's say that in a state's primary Giuliani (or even McCain) was getting about 48% of the vote in the polls, and Thompson (an excellent candidate) was getting about 46%, with Paul getting about 7%. In that situation, I would have to seriously consider voting for Thompson instead of Paul. But, that situation never materialized in my state's primary, and I never even saw a reference on these web sites to the possibility.
Meanwhile, it looks like we're stuck with McCain, who, while not nearly as good a candidate as Thompson or Paul, is still much better than Obama.