Will Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich support the Democratic nominee?

Honestly, Gravel is so weird I'm not sure he'd support the Democratic nominee even if it was himself.

I could see Ron Paul as a Libertarian and picking up 2-4% of the vote in 2008.    

IMO that was the most significant moment of the debate. Obviously the feeling "persists" in the party (see Dobson, Viguerie, etc.), and now the widening rifts in the GOP are a topic for the debates as well.

let's hope TT opens his big mouth and throws CO firmly into our grasp.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/opinio n/04dobson.html?_r=2&oref=slogin& ;oref=slogin

According to the Times, Dobson is one step from actually shopping for a candidate if Romney or Guiliani get the nomination. Tancredo, Paul, or even a draft like Brownback would cause immense damage to the GOP GOTV in the South if Dobson and his allied groups and ministries push a 3rd party candidate.  

The Christian Right is making noises that they won't support anyone pro-choice and may launch a third party candidate. Doncha love it.  Where are those locked step Reapers?  Reapers, as in grim reapers is my new name for Republicans until they stop calling us the Democrat Party. We got it already -- Democrat sounds like rat but its the Reapers who have eaten up our economy, our surplus and our prestige in the world and if we don't put in a Democrat in 08 they will eat up our future too.

Huckabee. He's a fundamentalist minister. Dobson would pick him.

I just hope he's not the GOP nominee. He looks too good on TV and can marshal the wing nut support.

I gotta imagine that if Paul wants the Libertarian Party nomination, it's his. He was their nominee in '88, and libertarians are very excited about his primary campaign.

Ron Paul has said repeatedly that he has no intention of pursuing a third party bid.  His supporters might argue that he has a moral imperative to run, though, if the nominees are Giuliani and Clinton.

Don't be so sure about which side he would draw more votes from, however.  He's a lot better anti-war candidate than Clinton, and a lot better on civil liberties and reining in presidential power.  Compared to Giuliani, he's a lot more appealing to pro-life voters, anti-illegal immigration voters, and Second Amendment voters.

Ron Paul is always painted as a fringe candidate with extreme ideas (which admittedly, isn't that much of a stretch), but he's solidly in the mainstream on the biggest issues of the election:  against the war, against runaway federal spending, against illegal immigration, and against spying on the American people.

Don't be so sure he would be in the 2-4% range as a third party option, either.  That might be the case if the election were next week, but his campaign has gone viral, and could be much stronger by next summer.

Yeah, I think one of them said something about "having respect for all life" or something which seemed to mean they won't vote for a pro-abortion candidate and we all know who that is - Rudy.

While many of his positions - on unions for example - are 180 degrees from those on the left I think that he could draw  significant among of protests votes from the anti war left.  I think there are posters on this site that would jump that shark, sadly.