Well aren't you just sooo very special. Your assertion is irrelevant as the end result is the same. Yours is a distinction without a difference . . . either you are working to stop the reelection of the most destructive and dangerous fascist in American history, or you are helping him win.
No third party candidacy will help conservatives. No refusal to vote for Romney will benefit any conservative cause--but it will ensure Obama's reelection.
Standing on principle would be small comfort to me if the entire nation is brought down because of it.
America faces a simple choice in the upcoming elections . . . either Obama wins and America finishes its rapid trip down the toilet of Marxism/socialism with all of the loss of liberties and freedoms Americans have come to expect, or Obama loses and America is given another chance to get it right--next time around.
To fail, for Obama to get reelected is for America to die--not really cool with that . . . I guess you holier-than-thou types are.
And you are simply wrapped up in the same old doomsday scenario that was used to get Conservatives to vote for McCain. It didn't work, Obama won anyway, and it looks like we will have the 2012 elections after all.
Have you considered that again holding your nose will have the same end result as all the other times?
If Obama wins, he will continue the steep decline, but it will be under Democrat leadership. They will no longer be able to hide that fact from the short-memoried masses. And if enough of us draw the line now, maybe the Republican leadership will get it and make changes or a third party will cease the opportunity and give Conservatives a home. That is, after all, how the Republican party got started in the first place.
If Romney wins, the decline will only be slightly less steep, but the Liberal PR machine will plant the blame squarely on Republicans, and the Democrats will cease control for a generation. We have seen that before as well.
Your hope is that Romney, if elected, will govern in a way that we have never seen him govern before. You are hoping for change it seems.