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Your question, and the posts here, illustrate the problem in the system.
No one really likes the two party system, but both sides will, in the end, vote for their party's candidate. Why? So that the other party's candidate doesn't get in.

Let's face it, we like to blame the system for the lack of choice, but when it comes time to choose, our selection ends up being from one of the two major parties. In the end, we make up the system, we are the system. As Pogo said: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

It's going to take some work to change that. Work by us, the system. If you don't like what you see, then get active in the GOP. Join! Go to the local meetings and speak your mind. There are things that you can do. If you are doing things, bravo! If not, why not? As Ronald Reagan said: "If not us, then who? If not now, when?". And let me add this: "If not us, then it will be the RINO."

Having said that, the more I listen to what Barr has to say, the more I like him.

I WAS very active in my local GOP for years. But then, the rhetoric I had been hearing for so long was thrown in my face, as "the Party" ignored it's own rules and violated tham without so much as a second thought. When I pointed this out, I was crucified by Party loyalists. My loyalties to "the Party" were questioned; I was accused of being a Democrat plant; and I was asked at one meeting point blank whether I had accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior.

Part of the system? No more.

When you spend a long time banging your head against a brick wall, sometimes it just feels good to stop for a while.