That's a simplistic analysis of the issue. Give us the 12-to-16-year map of where a Romney win takes us vs. an Obama win. Moderate Republicans don't get us anywhere in the short-term and hurt us badly in the medium-to-long-term. If we get a moderate Republican president, you're looking at a repeat of 2006 and 2008 in 2014 and 2016. An Obama election is likely to keep the base motivated to put more Tea Party patriots in Congress in 2014, and then we'll get another shot at a conservative president in 2016. So being SLIGHTLY better than Obama wouldn't make up for ushering in the revenge of Pelosi and Obama 2.0 in 2016.
I can't see into a crystal ball but if obama wins a second term, it wouldn't surprise me to see open, running gun battles.
Before any "hard case" says bring it on, watching shot and blown apart humans die is not a TV series.
I was a medic in the Army and participated in bloody, smelly, ugly, nasty death, close up and personal.
I could do it again, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to.