I'm strongly against both "big party" candidates. Either Romney wins and sucks resulting in democrats retaking office after his first term, or BHO wins and continues sucking. If BHO stays in office it will create more problems with socialism and will result in the US getting a taste of losing freedom. This results in a more extreme movement of a candidate similar to Ron Paul who wants to actually get in the face of the government and strip it down. This is my theory. But I still refuse to vote for either one because I don't want to say I contributed to either one of their phony regimes. Plus my vote technically doesn't count, I'm not a delegate.
And btw NENick I used to have the same reasoning as you, I would vote for the most likely candidate to take out Obama. But the alternative seems just as bad for gun laws. Massachusetts is tougher on long guns than Illinois.