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When you’re fighting terrorists abroad
The Bush Republican WOT isn't working.
and liberals at home
Both Democrat and Republican?

Perhaps they want a change of direction ... but there is NO indication they want it from Ron Paul.
He's the only candidate who garners support across party lines. If Ron Paul can't win the election no Republican can.

If someone (like Paul, for instance) is going to screw up American foreign policy ... I’d really rather he didn’t have an (R) beside his name.
But it doesn't bother you that Bush Republicans have given us the biggest foreign policy disaster in our history?

but at least they understand national defense,
I sure haven't seen any indication that they do.

and they’re more likely to win than Paul is
The only one on your list that stands a chance is Giuliani and that's because he's a Democrat.

>>> When you’re fighting terrorists abroad
>> The Bush Republican WOT isn’t working.

I think the War on Terror is working fine. Just a week or two ago, the TERRORISTS in Iraq wanted to discuss a cease fire. What isn’t working is the domestic propaganda (using the term in the non-derogatory sense) arm of the War on Terror ...

The War itself is going fine ... the media and domestic selling of the war is not going well at all.

>> He’s the only candidate who garners support across party lines. If Ron Paul can’t win the election no Republican can.

Ridiculous. He doesn’t even get the support of a plurality in HIS OWN party ... much less “across party lines”. Sure ... there are liberals that like him (though, in my book, this isn’t a good argument for why I should vote to nominate him).

>> But it doesn’t bother you that Bush Republicans have given us the biggest foreign policy disaster in our history?

Please ... 3,500 deaths in Iraq is hardly the “biggest foreign policy disaster in our history”. Like I said ... we’re losing the propaganda war ... not the ACTUAL war.

>> The only one on your list that stands a chance is Giuliani and that’s because he’s a Democrat.

I think Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani (though Romney has an outside chance) are really the only two in our party with a chance at the WH (though there are only a couple of Democrats with any chance either ... so I’m not sure thats an indictment of the Republican Party).

Personally ... I’m pulling for a ticket of Fred Thompson and J.C. Watts. Thompson is the most conservative candidate with broad appeal. He is the only Republican candidate that I have seen ANY excitement over (outside of a few rabid Paul and Tancredo supporters ... two candidates with only slightly less chance at the Presidency than Ralph Nader). According to statements and voting record, Thompson is fiscally conservative, socially conservative, strong on defense and the War on Terror, and tough on Immigration. His vote on campaign finance was lousy ... but that’s a small concession (and one which may actually HELP his broad appeal outside the party).