Hindsight is always 20/20. Absolutely correct -- as a matter of fact, the hindsight that served me well in my decision to vote for a plurality in 2012, was derived from 35 years of voting your way, exactly as you advise, and using the same rationale, as in your post 106. I've already tried your way -- for more than three decades.
My 20/20 hindsight, which was also adopted by enough fellow conservatives in 2012, served our nation and all "conservatives" who voted for Romney very well -- the bastard lost, and you, MKJ, are off the hook for all the garbage statism and amoral evil he would done in your name with your endorsement.
Yes, your endorsement. Whether he was your first, second, or 100th choice is totally beside the point, as relevant to the outcome as potato chips are relevant to bicycle tires.
Most important, though, is that your entire strategy is based on an illusion -- that of voting "against." I believed in that illusion for decades, the same as you do still. I finally wised up -- you are still laboring in blindness.
You are basing your strategy along the same lines as someone planning a trip by using unicorns as the mode of transportation. Because you are beginning on a totally false, imaginary premise -- that of voting "against," the results are GUARANTEED to fail. And they have failed and will continue to fail. Voting "against" is as real is unicorns -- and you will get the same results by depending on either one to deliver them.
Well thank God we have you Defenders of the Conservative Faith to steer us lesser mortals into the light.