Of course there are additional ways to advance the conservative cause other then when you cast your vote for President, and folks are certainly free to do all those.
But we're talking specifically about casting a vote for President this November. So when you've done all those other things, and you're sitting in the voting both to cast your vote for President, what should be done? According to you, an Obama Presidency will advance the Conservative cause. If that is your logic, then why wouldn't you vote for Obama so as to advance the conservative cause?
And I'm not asking you how you'll vote. I'm asking you to explain the logic of not voting for Obama under that assumption. Because I can't think of one.
Silly me -- I assumed you'd read all the posts on this thread, and not just the ones responding to you; if you had, you'd have seen that I've answered your question before in some detail.
The conservative cause would be advanced best if Obama squeaked in by a weak plurality, the lower the plurality, the better: Remember when Clinton got in on 43% (as in, 57% of votes cast were OPPOSED to him), and what happened to him the next mid-term? I doubt the Republican Revolution would have happened had Clinton won with 53%.
A vote FOR Obama would count to making his plurality higher, therefore it is logical to WITHHOLD my vote from him. It's logical to withhold my vote from Romney because he HAS A SOLID, DOCUMENTED RECORD of promoting and supporting all the things I have been voting Republican all these years to OPPOSE. Voting for Romney is plainly as nuts as voting for Obama.
I refuse to cast my vote FOR either Obama or Romney as voting for one is as nuts as voting for the other. But my vote, like every American's, is precious. I will USE IT the best way I can. And that is to vote third party, even if it's for a Pat Paulsen candidate, for the express purpose of using my vote to push whichever statist/socialist wins, Obama or Romney, to as anemic a number as possible, and hope that Obama is the squeaks in on, ideally, as low as 34%. That would mean 66% of Americans who voted, voted to OPPOSE Obama, and equally important and powerful, it would mean that registered Republicans were conservative and BRAVE enough to tell the GOP that Romney was a bridge too far, which would HUGELY empower and embolden conservatism within the GOP, and devastate liberalism in the GOP.
The election of conservatives is the only thing that's going to save America. THAT is the bottom line.
Frankly, a Romney win poses a much greater threat to conservatism than an Obama win. It's a gamble either way, but the greater odds in favor of conservatism lie in rejecting Romney than in allowing Abject Fear of Obama to bully conservative Republicans into voting for a politician who HAS A DOCUMENTED RECORD of doing all the things conservative Republicans oppose.