I disagree with your pessimism about Romney. I am not sure what nightmare Romney is going to bring to this country - nothing anything close the nightmare we have had under 0bama. He wasn't my first choice, I would have prefered Perry or Gingrich. The thing I am still trying to figure out is why was Romney an exceptable alternative to McCain 4 years but not to 0bama now.
If Romney promises to repeal Obamacare and can sound like he means it, if he can publicize the real unemployment rate and get people to think he knows how to get people back to work, if he promises to keep the Bush tax cuts, he should win easily.
He may not be any more trustworthy than Bush-41 was about "no new taxes" but he knows what happened to Bush in 1992 as a result.
We are better off having we don't trust on some issues but can put pressure on, than someone who is hell-bent on destroying the country. If Obama wins, we are stuck with Obamacare, whatever the Supreme Court decides...he has no respect for the rule of law.