What about the LP, or CP? Do those here who reject both Trump and Hillary if the major party face off comes down to them, or keeps coming down to people like them, have ANY other suggestions for the future, that don't have Paul as a last name? If Rand's campaign fails, does this movement end for future cycles, if a Paul isn't running? Then how are we any better than the Perot movement was?
Rather than become (or resolve to be) a cult of personality, perhaps we should be farming for new national liberty candidates for the 2020 and beyond time frames who can overcome the obstacles Ron and Rand apparently could not? Say, Judge Napolitano, actor Kurt Russell, billionaire Peter Thiel, whomever? Is the more complete answer to be found in running a major celebrity, or our own billionaire, or something else? Or are we just afraid to name new possibilities?
For now, the fact remains, if Trump gets the Republican nomination, it will be strategically useful to us. If it happens, he will have broken the lock the establishment has over steering the major party primary system, broken the Koch/Adelson et al mega-donor coronation matrix, broken the major media's chokehold on dictating who the frontrunner is supposed to be and what (or how) issues are supposed to be discussed. He will have mapped out the grammar (minus his personality issues) for how to accomplish this, for future waves of REAL alternative candidates to follow. This will be valuable progress over the elite controlled system we have now.