Until the Republicans straighten out their primary system, we’ll continue to have candidates like this for national office.
-- Anyway, the ONLY way to bypass that fatally flawed primary system that puts liberal democrats like Romney and Jeb at the top of the Republican ticket, is to have the guts to break out and go THIRD PARTY.
Probable, yes, that the candidate will lose, but EVEN IF the third party candidate loses, if it is what happened with Perot and the winner gets a plurality, it will be GOOD for the cause of limited government conservatism. The only two times a liberal president won on a plurality -- that is, the majority of American voters voted for someone else, and that president was both times only elected by a minority, that president was first steamrolled by the Republican Revolution, and then impeached.
A powerful third party candidate who can force a plurality, even if he/she loses, will do HUGE GOOD in weakening whichever liberal wins, whether it's the Democrat or the Republican.
HAVE SOME GUTS, people, and stop kneejerking to the conventional "wisdom" (an oxymoron most of the time) that third party cannot be a good thing for our freedom. IT CAN, it has been in the past, and God willing, it will be in the future.
The GOP is dead and gone. It is now the flip side of the same liberal Democrat coin and supporting it is counterproductive to the cause of limited government and American freedom.