Senator, I can’t help but feel your anti-Trump campaign is descending into self-aggrandizing hyper-moralizing. Stepping back from your theorizing, let’s deal with reality.

There are only 2 candidates with a credible chance of being President: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Anyone else one may vote for is a vote wasted in terms of determining the outcome of the election.

You have two choices. 1) Recognizing that one of these two will be President, you can pick whom you think would be the better candidate. 2) Waste your vote on someone else. If you choose to vote for someone else, you are essentially saying that you don’t care which of Clinton/Trump is President. If you have any preference, you should support that person, whomever it is. Generating media headlines attacking the nominees may be fun and easy, but if you care about the country, you should play a role in selecting the next President. That involves voting for someone who may actually win. Maybe you wish these weren’t the two candidates, but let’s deal with the world we live in not the world we wished we lived in. DC’s inability to deal with the real world and its mere traffic in theory explains why so many are so disgusted at our Federal Government.