Your 3rd party vote returned the Kenyan Messiah to the White House. Nice.
You make the obvious mistake of assuming that conservatives somehow are obligated to vote for any old leftist piece of shit (spelling it out sometimes seems necessary) that uses Wall Street $$$$$ to BUY the GOP POTUS nomination. Actual conservatives don't share that assumption. My vote is my vote. Your vote is yours. We can argue at leisure after casting our respective votes as to whose votes demonstrates conservatism.
I do not vote for baby-killers. Romney is and always has been an enthusiastic baby-killer because his mommy and daddy were and, because he had this cousin who died of a botched illegal abortion in 1962, AND because Myth actually serviced abortion mills by creating a corporation to dispose of the dismembered tortured little corpses. To you and the late Barry Goldwater that may seem to be "conservative." I beg to differ.
I do not vote for gun grabbers. I do not vote for supporters of the "gay" agenda. I do not vote for those who would expand government control over a full one sixth of the US economy; i.e. our medical care system (and Romneycare was even MORE radical than Obozocare). I do not vote for candidates who support further carving up the nation's economy among the Wall Street powers that be at the expense of the largely unemployed American people. I do not vote for candidates embracing a limp-wristed foreign policy. I do not vote for candidates who dream of satisfying the global climate change and envirowhacko nutcases. These are a few examples that obviously mark the boundaries between thee and me (and I suspect Finny as well) and an increasing number of FReepers and other actual conservatives. Romney can be counted on to be on the wrong side of each and every cited issue. If you vote FOR the sorry likes of Romney, you take your piece of the responsibility for his Demonrat in GOP drag act.
A vote (in my case) for a third party candidate like FR's own Eternal Vigilance is exactly that. It is no more a vote for Obozo (or in 2016 for the Arkansas Medusa) than it is a vote for Myth Romney. As Finny points out, you vote FOR not against. You are apparently willing to vote FOR Myth Romney. I am not. Nor will I urge others to vote for Myth Romney when I will not vote for the POS myself. It should seem self-evident that no actual conservative will EVER vote for unmitigated leftist trash like Obozo, Myth Romney or the Arkansas Medusa.