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The three other potential candidates were Virgil Goode, Wiley Drake, and Edward Noonan.

All of those candidates have military experience. Hoefling does not claim any in the biography on his site.

Goode was also a congressmen for several terms. Noonan has run for office several times, in one case getting over 1% of the vote in a large field against Boxer. Drake has prayed for the demise of Obama.

They all seem to have been more qualified to run for president than Hoefling whose experience seems limited to issues advocacy. He might have the right views, but he has no experience in turning those views into legislation, or running a city, state, or country on those views.

I still believe that all conservatives in solid blue states like California should vote en bloc for the Green Party candidate. The Greens have a slim, but not negligible, chance of getting 5% of the popular vote nationwide. If they do then they might start siphoning off some of the true believers from the Democrat Party.

This is not an election for symbolic voting. Voting for Romney in California is throwing away your vote. Obama has California in the bag. But if enough people vote for the Green Party then the Democrats will have one more thing to worry about.