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Ron Paul said Thursday that he would be hesitant to support either Mitt Romney or Rick Perry as the Republican nominee, saying the remainder of the GOP field was "all different" from him.

"None of them are advocating my positions," Paul said on CNN. "I don't choose to pick, because I see all the other candidates in one group, and they're all different than what I'm talking about."

Paul said that the radical difference in positions between himself and the Republican front-runners would make it difficult for them to gain his endorsement.

"The foreign policy I advocate, neither one of them do, and the Federal Reserve, I put a tremendous emphasis on that, and civil rights and civil liberties, so I would put all the other candidates in one category, and I think I'm competing with them as one group," Paul said.

In addition to Romney and Perry, Paul also said he disagreed with Herman Cain, and especially his criticism of the Occupy Wal! l Street protesters.

"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich â€" blame yourself. It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed," Cain said Wednesday.

But Paul said that a broken economic system was to blame for high unemployment numbers.

"I don't quite come at it that way," Paul said. "The people losing their jobs, it wasn't their fault that we have a deeply flawed economic system. I am not so anxious to say, 'It's all your fault, if you want to be rich, you can be rich.' People are begging and pleading for jobs. There are no jobs as a consequence of bad economic policy."

Cain said Thursday that if he did not win the nomination, he would be willing to support any Republican nominee, with the exception of Rick Perry.