As I stated above, I am no supporter of Mitt Romney. When I vote in November, I will cast a vote for Romney, but rather than a vote for him, it is a vote against Obama. Writing in Palin or Newt or anyone else, or voting for Virgil Goode or Gary Johnson is effectively a vote for Obama as neither of these fringe, third party candidates have a snowball’s chance of hitting double digits. This will likely be a very close election. We can not afford to let Obama win.
I'll look forward to seeing you post your local vote tally that includes an "against Obama" count. You're voting for Romney, that's how it goes in the books. Why ABOs are so reluctant to state that is beyond me ... wait, no it isn't.
As for the rest of your comment, the day you have to prove your conservatism by voting for a liberal is the day 1984 comes to Free Republic. A third-party vote is a third party vote. No more and certainly no less.
You may intend it as a vote "against" Obama, but it will most assurely be a vote FOR Romney.
Sad to say that voting "against" is a popular sophistry. There is no voting "against" in elections; you can only vote FOR something to replace what you want to vote "against." You don't even vote "against" a ballot proposition -- you can only vote FOR nixing it. It's a fine point, but a crucial one in understanding the price of ABO.
It is a hard reality that a lot of ABOers may wake up to with a nasty nightmare jolt come 2014 when it's not "about" Obama anymore, but only about Romney and how conservatives are the minority in an administration where moderate Republicans, the White House, and Democrats "unite" to advance a "progressive" agenda.
I'm voting the only way that makes sense in an O v R contest: third party in order to deny a popular mandate to whichever guy wins. The only leg-up conservatives in Congress can have for fighting the next next president, who is guaranteed to want to advance government tyranny, will be having the numbers to back them up in moving against a president who lacks a popular mandate, a president whom the majority of Americans rejected at the ballot box.