Third party or write-in, I suppose. My ancestors and I and millions of others served so that we can all vote. I won’t casually throw that away. Say that more of us had voted for McCain/Palin in 2008, for instance. Do you really think an old ex-POW would have made it through eight years of such a grueling job? And if not, what would have happened? That’s right! President Palin. But not enough people thought strategically!!
I sure did! {^) You nailed it! I figured that ol' Nutso McCain would be taken out in a straightjacket before the first four years were up, so I voted for him on that gamble. Had his running mate been almost anyone else, I'd have voted third party for the first time in more than three decades of voting. I thought then and still think Palin would make a very good president.
Romney crossed the line on every front, moral and fiscal. Voting for that was as nuts as voting for Obama. Truly, Vet, the plurality split of Perot weakened Clinton, weakened the moderate wing of the Republican party, and aided conservative Republicans.
I think strategically with my vote. It is a DUTY for me to vote because I am (or consider myself) to be thoughtfully informed, by the grace of FR and the Almighty! I have to USE my vote the best way I can. I withhold it always, NOW, from men who would use it to increase government control over me and mine. I wish I had started voting that way sooner.
My duty to vote here in California in the recent Governor's race, between Romney-clone Kashkari or Moonbeam, with zero third party alternative, was to decline participating altogether. I'm indifferent as to whether the brand is Coke or Pepsi, and reject both of them. My duty was to withhold my endorsement, so I did.