It's simple math - a vote for a third-party candidate does not go to Obama. It does not help Romney, but it basically goes off to the side and is not in play.
Try making the case for Romney without inane, worn-out GOP-E talking points. We hear them every four years. I guess it beats the GOP-E actually trying to do something to satisfy the base's core concerns.
Here is the case for Romney:
Romney is a politician not an idealogue...... all of our Presidents are politicians
Ronald Reagan was a politician. Politicians have few if any firm convictions (even if they say they do)
What politicians need are votes and money. To get the votes and money they REFLECT the will of the people (at least the people who vote for them)
For Romney to get elected in Mass he reflected the will of those people . They are more liberal ...thus he was more liberal
To get elected President he HAS to be more conservative.If he gets in power and wants to remain in power he has to fix this economy by doing what his supporters want.
He will have to fix the economy by sticking to the tenants of the Right
Exactly how far right he will go is impossible to know but he will Have to govern from the right
Obama is beholden to the radical left ...he shows no inclination to even nod to the right . He is more of an ideologue than a politician .
We will all ge better off with a politician (Romney) who listens to some of the voices on the right.
Simple truth
They still operate under the idea that when the vote is suppressed (by snow, rain, disaster, plague or poison) it's good for Republicans.
That hasn't been so since before the 1930s.
If they had anyone over there who understood the slightest bit of political theory they'd understand that waiting to go to the middle takes you to an area with few voters ~ you have to secure the base early, and build on it. Does no good to tell your base to take a hike ~ which is what they've done this year!