This fall, the major parties are offering you two choices.

You can vote for a longtime Democrat supporter who is likely to drive up our debt, take away our religious liberty, disrespect our military, and lie about, well, anything and everything.

Or you can vote for Hillary Clinton.

Of course, for many Republicans, the very idea of voting for Clinton is what's driving them to support Trump, who, by almost all accounts, is far from conservative. At face value, perhaps, it seems as if Republicans have a tough choice to make this fall.

But if the GOP can put principles over party, there's an easy choice: Govs. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld.

Don't take my word for it. A handful of experienced conservatives are launching a new effort, Republicans for Johnson-Weld.

In a news release today, Ed Lopez, the group's co-chair, explained, "The way we see it, we are supporting the most Republican ticket on the ballot." Lopez, the former national vice chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, argued that the "combined gubernatorial experience of the Johnson-Weld ticket as well as their fiscally conservative records and inclusive governing styles are most reflective of what the majority of Americans are desperately looking for in their leaders."

Also on board is Republican strategist Marco Nunez Jr., who has worked with George W. Bush, John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Republican National Committee. "I felt called to make a stand in support of the Republican Party and its core principles of individual freedom and limited government," Nunez said. "In this election, that means supporting Johnson-Weld along with Republicans down-ballot."

For these Republicans, voting for Johnson-Weld is not compromising their principles; in fact, their support for Johnson-Weld is precisely because the ticket's "principles, message and policies are rooted in Republican ideals of fiscal conservatism, individual liberty, economic prosperity."

The pair of two-term Republican governors — both of whom were elected in Democratic states (New Mexico and Massachusetts) — has more executive branch experience than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined.

Supporting the free market, as Johnson and Weld do, has long been viewed as a staple of the Republican Party. But on trade, Trump is closer to socialist Bernie Sanders; he's a supporter of prohibitive tariffs and trade wars. He's exploited eminent domain for decades. While Gary Johnson wants to combat crony capitalism, Donald Trump is a crony capitalist.

Johnson, on the other hand, has a successful history in business — a history that neither started with a million-dollar loan nor ended in bankruptcy. In 1976, Johnson, at the age of 23, began his own company, which became one of New Mexico's largest construction firms and made Johnson a millionaire.

Admittedly, many are skeptical of third parties, who have little, if any, chance of actually winning. But a vote for Trump or Clinton is a vote for big government. There's no worse way to "waste your vote" than to vote against your own principles.