>>Your vote for Romney will be a vote FOR making the Republican party turn hard left.<<
Your vote FOR obama is much, much worse.
There's only one way to vote for Obama, and that is to mark his name the ballot. It is a stubborn fact. You can say two plus two is five until you are blue in the face, but the fact is that it's four, and the fact is that there's only one way anybody can vote FOR Obama.
Seeing as how Obama's numbers are extremely low, withholding a vote from his primary opponent and giving it instead to one of his lesser third party opponents, hardly guarantees Obama's win. It only risks it, and frankly, there is ZERO risk with Romney -- it is a 100 percent certainty that Romney would make liberals stronger in both parties. So anything I can do to weaken Romney is in the best interest of freedom.
I will be marking a third-party name on the ballot, so you are quite mistaken in how I will be voting, although you are emotionally convinced otherwise. You have been manipulated emotionally into buying into the fallacy that "a vote for a third party is the same as a vote for Obama."
I have figured out the hard way (I finally realized what you have yet to perceive, that being a Republican and voting "Anybody But _____" is fulfilling Einstein's definition of insanity) that there is no such thing as voting "against," only voting for. I will be voting for weakening the mandate of whichever authoritarian statist wins.
You, on the otherhand, will be voting for making liberalism more powerful in both parties.
And you are being manipulated by fear, anger, and desire for vengeance against Obama to vote for making the Republican party turn hard left, all the while pretending that you are only voting "against" Obama. That is about as bad as it gets.