Johnson and Weld are the sane rational candidates the G.O.P. wish they had

They acted on those ideas as governors, with the usual accommodations to political reality. Johnson was called “America’s boldest governor” by the Economist for his push for school choice. And that was before he came out for legalizing marijuana and moving away from the war on drugs. He vetoed more than 700 spending and regulation bills and left the state with a $1 billion surplus. Weld, a two term Governor of Massachusetts who was re-elected with a massive majority in the Kennedy Democrat stronghold, cut taxes, constrained state spending, and created a domestic partners program for gay state employees.