I have to disagree with the prospect of asking most, if any, Ron Paul supporters to vote for anyone else.

That point is that voting for anyone other than Paul isn't a vote for a flawed candidate, it's voting against the very core of our beliefs.

All the men on that stage said, in one way or another, that they would be willing to ignore the Constitution at some point during their presidency ... that's not just a flaw it's an ideological breakdown.

A flaw is a lapse of judgment when trapped in a specific moment, not a premeditated ignorance of our basic laws. Paul himself is a flawed candidate. He mumbles. He doesn't look presidential. He sometimes babbles, and he had a mishap with the management of his newsletters ... but he has never varied from the core principles that we believe, which is why so many of us rally around him.

The great irony of all this, as I see it, is that Paul has the best chance at beating Obama. He, unlike the other candidates, has Democrats, Republicans and Independents behind him. So to ask us to support any other candidate in my eyes is not only illogical but would be no different then a vote for an Obama victory.

We should be asking the other Republicans to support a candidate who has the record, knowledge and support to defeat Obama, and yet that question will not be asked, and I'm not sure why.

To be clear, I'm not calling for a Ron Paul third-party run. I'm calling for the GOP to get behind him and defeat Obama.

Joseph R. Breyne