“... because a cohort of die-hard conservative purists cannot bring themselves to choose between the lesser of two evils?”.
Well, uhm, jack ass.
That they are on the bubble by their own partt ought to ache their conscience and inform them they damned well better figure out whose side they ought to be on.
I take it the author schilled for Romney?
You don’t remember, I guess, that Jim Robinson also urged folks to vote for Romney once he won the primary.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951524/posts
The trouble with the all-or-none approach is that there is a chance we get the none. Some people gotta wake the hell up.