Yep, pretty much. If we cost him Texas I'd love his face on election day... but by then he'd have known he already loses.
I strongly invite Republicans who can't imagine voting for Donald Trump because he is a tribal demagogue or for Hillary Clinton because she is 'too liberal' to think carefully about what a vote for Gary Johnson means: that you want the Republican Party to return to a pro-business but otherwise even-handed orthodoxy in economics, that you want a Big Tent open to people of all ethnic and religious origins, that you like your politics rational, and that you want a Party that respects the capital that learning and imagination create.
If Donald Trump had opportunistically taken some liberal stances and run as a Democrat with the same level of demagoguery I would have to vote against him. Politicians who make contradictory promises cannot get satisfying results.
For someone whose primary choices for November were effectively Sanders, Clinton, Kasich, and Canada (I do not like the religious fanaticism and abrasive personality of Ted Cruz I at least recognize the necessity of a strong two-party system to keep American politics and in turn economics honest with opportunity for all and not only the ruthless and connected. This applies at both the state and federal level. Texas politics were better when they were competitive, when Texas could have both Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Clements.
I want to see Donald Trump defeated soundly -- so soundly that religious and ethnic bigots recognize that they have no chance in the American mainstream. I also want Republicans to recognize that Barack Obama did much right as President.
