Republicans, would you vote 3rd party or abstain if Mitt Romney is the nominee?

[Vote UKIP!]

Romney. This election is too important for conservatives to sit home or vote for a third party. I don't like Romney's flip-flopping, his slick persona, nor his timid economic policies. However, Romney is center-right, and he does have a good chance at beating Obama.

To conservatives or libertarians who might choose the other two options, what you would do would be irresponsible. I assume you are as just as concerned for the fate of our country as I am if not more so. Romney may not be everything we wanted, but his managerial experience and his current positions are enough for our support. Should we either stay home in protest, or vote for a third party - which will never win, period - we will be essentially handing the presidency back to Obama for another four more years of the same destructive policies. And once he's elected for a second term, the gloves are off.

Don't get me wrong, I will fight every step of the way to prevent Romney from getting the nomination. But I'll support him, encourage other conservatives to vote for him, and will use aquafresh toothpaste in honor of him, should he get the nomination. We should aim for the most pure candidate, but if we cannot get such a candidate, we need to go with the one that at least will begin to reverse the damage already inflicted by the administration.

[California8429]

Romney

[Reluctant Republican]

If the election was today, I'd probably vote again Mitt Romney, though whether that would be 3rd party or Obama I'm not sure. Mitt Romney's hawkish talk lately unsettles me, and I worry he'd be a wasted opportunity anyway. When I think of Mitt, great leader does not instantly come to mind.

The only republican that would definitely make me vote for Obama at this juncture is Bachmann. Cain, Perry, and Romney I'd have to think about, but for the former two I'd probably at least vote third party.  Paul I could happily vote for, and Gingrich I'd have no problem with.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Romney

[nhmagic]

It's a damn shame.  I would consider voting third party up until close to the election and then I would probably take a lobster claw to pinch my nose and vote for Romney.

If it were Gingrich, I might be ok.  He seems like he has new ideas, perhaps different ones than many of the other candidates.

If Jesse Ventura or Ron Paul ran third party, I would vote for one of them (despite how much I despise Ventura's views on abortion).

Zarn is right.  All of the candidates are the same on the important issues - the fed, the entitlements, the foreign interventions.  Those are the issues that have been especially destroying our country over the last few decades.  As the Eurozone begins to vote on a single treasury, we should realize how susceptible we are to one world government.  It's sickening and none of the candidates are doing anything to stop it.  

And now we have Herman Cain, who is advocating a vat tax and a national sales tax along with an income tax.  It's just what they've wanted for years.

I, for one, don't want to see a burst of transformation (Obama) or slow transformation (republicans).  I'm tired of it and want our president to assert our sovereignty to the world and take command of the economy by ridding us of the bloated entitlement system and unnacountable executive level departments which have more influence on our life than the current congress.  The socialist globalists are terrified of a candidate who isn't a puppet of theirs.