I am genuinely pleading ignorance to any conservatives running. I literally know of none. Gary Johnson might come closest, is that who you're talking about?
I would vote for this French guy I guess. The border is an important topic to me, very important. I will have to see how he stands there.
I'm not talking about anyone in particular actually. I'm just saying the same thing I have said for years now.
The bottom line comes down to this. We can vote for Trump, a man with a lifetime of liberalism and a sudden Damascus conversion conveniently occurring after Bill Clinton recommended he run as a Republican, or we can vote for someone else.
Now we can vote to win no matter what, not caring who we win with or what we win. In that situation, then Trump is the obvious choice. He is likely getting many of those votes and we see people say it all the time. So thats the safe bet. But you get a liberal when he wins. And his victory is anything but assured.
Or you can stand your ground on principle and literally vote for anyone else on the GOP ticket, third party or a write-in, who is provably more conservative. You might win. You might lose. But if you win, you have something more conservative than Hillary or Trump. If you lose, you lost with Trump regardless. So it's really a no lose scenario for conservatives.
We can maintain the principles the country was founded on or we van play pragmatism games, flush those principles and flush our integrity and conservatism along with it.