Maybe Sanford won't get Paul supporters

There's been a lot of chatter about Ron Paul supporters potentially defecting from the gold-loving doctor to Mark Sanford in 2012.

There's that temperamental and ideological fit.

Well, chatter on, but scale the giddiness back.

The American Spectator:

North Korea was the first test for Sanford and he sided with the advocates of pre-emption. Noninterventionist conservatives are predictably displeased. My own view is that Sanford basically punted on the question, saying nice things about his "former boss" Newt Gingrich and mean things about Democratic fecklessness instead of giving a Fox News audience a considered presentation of his preferred foreign policy. But since it is impossible to imagine that kind of answer coming from Ron Paul, it's the first good reason to doubt he'll go out of his way to please Paulites on issues of war and peace.

The "punt" in question.

Displeased Paulites in question.