I had a clothes pin on my nose and boy did that hurt!
When your nose tells you something stinks, it is warning you. Like you, I used to hold my nose while voting, and meanwhile, government kept getting more and more stinky.
In 2012's presidential race, for the first time in more than 35 years of holding my nose and voting for leftist Republicans on the pretense that they were "better" than leftist Democrats, I finally decided ...
... instead of holding my nose, I would HEED my nose. So I voted for what smelled right and healthy: Tom Hoefling, aka Eternal Vigilance, a third-party candidate. I am very happy because I did two things: I endorsed a righteous Christian conservative who advocates for limited government, and I DEPRIVED both leftists, Romney and Obama, of my endorsement, thereby weakening, if in small measure, any mandate they might get.
I am prepared to do the same if necessary in 2016, and I thank the Almighty daily that Mitt Romney LOST in 2012.