Looking at the six options for Texas governor

Yes, six.

Per Ballotpedia, they are:

1. Greg Abbott, R
2. Beto O'Rourke, D
3. Mark Tippetts, L
4. Delilah Barrios, G
5. Ricardo Turullols-Bonilla, I

Actually, that's just five. No. 6, per ME, having done it before myself and defended others, is undervoting.

A big variety of things scratches Strangeabbott, of course. I've never really considered a Libertarian executive or legislative vote, though I would do that (and wish I had thought about it more in the past) on prosecutorial and judicial elections, because of the War on Drugs, civil liberties, etc.

But, beyond the general reservations about Libertarians, we're post-Uvalde, and I'm not even going to bother finding Tippetts' position on gunz.

Barrios? She's the most libertarian of libertarian Greens I've had extensive interaction with, and on the gunz issue alone, I think she's in the wrong third party. She opposes O'Rourke's "take your AK-47" (which I take as wanting to restore Bill Clinton's assault weapons ban), is silent on red flag laws, and has other non-gunz problems.

So, I've already eliminated three. I'll eliminate No. 4 next. Turullos-Bonilla's response to the Ballotpedia candidate questionnaire shows he is not just a vanity candidate but a nutter, kind of like a techie version of the former "DemoRep" commenter on Ballot Access News.

So, it's Bob on a Knob, as he's known here, or undervote. And, the gunz? If I think he's got a puncher's chance, I vote for him.

UPDATE, Aug. 29: On the other hand, the child exploitation, nay, full child abuse, by the Never Abbotters at Moms Against Greg Abbott PAC in its back-to-school commercial, make me tilt more toward undervoting. And, after a community event in Uvalde last weekend, Tweeters thinking Barrios, like Uvalde parents, favor gun control when she does not (and has not disillusioned them of this belief) means she's still not getting my vote.