I don’t think that’s a stretch at all, Windflier. Not a bit.
Was talking with an extremely intelligent conservative friend today and while she hasn't decided how she's going to vote in November, she said she finds the hysteria with regard to Obama very "troubling," as it was hysteria against Bush and Republicans in general that gave us Obama, and it seems to her as if it's the same thing in reverse to vote for Romney.
I'd told her that for the first time since 1976, when I cast my first vote ever for Gerald Ford (and have voted EVERY election since), for the first time ever, I won't be voting straight Republican ticket.
I'll be voting third party at the top of the ticket because I know that there's no such thing as voting "against" a candiate. You can only vote FOR something ever, even if it's FOR thumbs-down on a ballot proposition. There is no vote "against," only FOR. So in the presidential, I will be voting FOR a plurality, the only hope we have of helping conservatives in their fight against whichever statist wins.