What about this question....if you could have voted for whomever you wanted....knowing that person very likely had no chance of being elected, who would you have voted for? Would it have been Gary Johnson?

I must not be doing a good job of making my point.  

As to your "strawman" . . . 

Clinton - 2 term gov

Bush -  2 term gov

Gary - 2 term gov

Obama, Trump ZERO executive government experience . . . generally doing the same job at a lower level in almost any situation is considered a "qualification".  So no strawman there.

All of your other "disqualifications" are equally as bogus . . . Trump was "not electable" yet he won.  Hillary has made some pretty ridiculous statements . . . like landing under sniper fire . . .but you don't seem to have that disqualifying her (perhaps because her policies are in line with you).  You seek a way to sweep Gary off the table as a possibility to people who find your reasoning bogus.  And it's the smug arrogance in which we are all painted as either some form of mental retard or a Trump enabler that is most galling (and I don't lay ALL of that on you).