“What are your non-negotiables? “
1) Anyone who is stupid or disloyal enough to run in a third party nomination or on a third party ticket should never be supported. Ever.
And people stupid and wrong enough to advocate for third parties should NEVER EVER BE LISTENED TO. I know this from the hard experience of how some Libertarians up and ruined a local party structure hereabouts.
2) Read, understand and agree with the Texas Republican Party platform.
If you voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin you're a hypocrite, then. They stand in opposition to large swaths of your state party platform.
For example:
All innocent human life must be respected and safeguarded from fertilization to natural death; therefore, the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We affirm our support for a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution and to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection applies to unborn children. We support the Life at Conception Act. We oppose the use of public revenues and/or facilities for abortion or abortion–related services. We support the elimination of public funding for organizations that advocate or support abortion.
The bolded parts are just a few of the tenets of your party that he makes a mockery of.