far more than Romney is, making Romney the only real choice if we want to even attempt to save the country. readernerd, what you need to understand is that we the people have decided that we will no longer vote for the parties choice against our own judgement . i am not willing to accept that any president could bring about the ruin you all promise !! i say we should follow our hearts as did the founding fathers and throw off the chains of an over-reaching burdensome government. let the fruits of capitalism flow to the masses and let the people keep the fruit of their own labor this will encourage more production As a libertarian and Ojectivist, I can tell you many of us aren't looking forward to a Romney win, since he doesn't have any idea of how to fix our government. Why not let Obama win, so a libertarian can pick up the pieces in four years. In this way, the left will be unable to blame the coming depression on capitalism. If you simply look at the disaster of every Republican President starting with Nixon and his closure of the gold window, we can see the GOP never comes through for capitalism, instead making it much worse, not better. "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." Ayn Rand. A vote for Obama is a