Easy way to tell if someone is interesting: varies inversely with how often they mention Trump. hubski has gotten far less interesting. EDIT: as a side note, I hope Johnson wins 12 percent of the popular vote. Third-party candidates who pull real vote counts give the historians a bit more to talk about down the road.
At this point the GOP should just rebrand themselves as the American wing of the national front. Libertarianism has enough broad appeal that it could become (or be co-opted by) the mainstream GOP. After the culture wars are definitively lost (and they seem to be in the last throes), what else do they have anyway?
Mark my words. Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley and the like are gonna come rippin' up the center making the argument that the party of small government is the party of small business and small paychecks and be hailed as the ZOMGSAVIORS of America against the oligarchic overreach of those imperial capital-D Democrats.