If there really was a viable alternative in 2012, I’d agree, but nobody else was going to get more than 1-2%. And it’s not as if those candidates were anything to write home about, neither.
Agree, I voted for Romney and I couldn’t stand him. But we have to put this in context; as bad as the Deep State Bushes were, they did put Alito and Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court. Of course, they also put Souter and of a lesser problem, Roberts, on the Court. But we would not have gotten anyone near to Alito and Thomas with Kerry or Dukakis in the White House. So I held my nose (literally) and voted for Romney.