Senator Smith is a great 2nd Amendment supporter, and I don't think you'll find another candidate as pro-gun as he is. In the past I've always wanted to vote for my REAL favorite candidate, but always thought "well, he doesn't have a chance to win, so I would just be throwing my vote away." No more, from now on I'm voting for the one I think best represents my beliefs and views, and let the chips fall where they may.
If we all did what I have done in the past, we're just letting the party bosses pick our presidents. They're trying to shove GW Bush down our throats, but if we don't buy it, they can't do it.
Right now Smith is about 2% in the polls, but it's a long time until the convention. If every gun owner (65-75 million) were to get behind Smith he would win in a landslide. Of course that's not very likely to happen, we can only get about 3.5 million gun owners to even join a gun organization like GOA, NRA, JPFO, etc. But at least voting is still free, so maybe some of the tightwads who won't blow $25 or $35 on a membership will still vote for Smith. It's worth a try.