That question borders on a non sequitur! If the premise is that you vote the down ticket conservatives into power while allowing little barry bastard to remain in power makes any sense (the conservatives will rein in the sonofabitch???), then voting the same conservatives into offices to rein in the liberal Romney is the modus operendus, but somehow the twisted reasoning turns that on its head and says these conservatives aren’t going to be conservatives if Romney is elected??? It’s so convoluted a pretzel maker would be needed to make sense of it! It is demonically brillant spin.
When the major concern is the state of the GOP and thereby America, then voting for Romney is wholly counter productive.
On the one hand, Romney as President of The United States and top Republican, will run the GOP farther to the Left. On the other hand, Obama will keep the GOP opposed to his Liberal policies.
Either one of them is a bad choice but voting for Romney and owning what you know he stands for is worse from a true Conservative point of view.
Not voting for Romney and being LOUD about it, sends a Conservative message. Voting for Romney sends no message because he is Liberal.