I'd rather not start knowing the political ideas of people here for fear that I'll have to start thinknig certain people here are assholes.

I'll just say this. Regardless of what your opinion is on what tax policy is best for all (trickle down, trickle out, trickle pickle) I could never vote for a party that has many of its members so bigoted against gay people and have as a party platform (their official party platform,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104221532/2012-Gop-Platform) to oppose abortion in every form regardless of rape or incest. They believe that if you are a woman and you are raped, that small government should swoop in and force you to carry your attacker's baby to term or go to jail.
They have house members on the science and technology committee who believes things such as "evolution is a lie from the pit of hell, the earth is 9,000 years old"
http://news.yahoo.com/congressman-calls-evolution-lie-pit-hell-175514039.html and "if it's a legitimate rape, the woman's body will shut that down".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_AkinScience. Committee. Should send a chill down your spine.
I could never sign on with a member of such a party regardless of almost any other factor. Some of you unsurprisingly seem disgusted with the parties in general and find them both distasteful. That's fair, but I would submit that one evil is *clearly* greater than the other. This stuff matters. Romney wants to increase military spending by over two trillion dollars.
http://www.cnas.org/defense-spending-to-spike-$2.1-trillion-under-romney Why increase it? We already spend more than double what the next five biggest military spending countries in teh world
combined spend.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/defense-spending-fact-of-the-day_n_1746685.html The cold war is over. We can't afford stuff like this.
As a spare thought, the interesting/scary/bizarre (depending on your point of view) thing about Romney is I honestly don't really know what he believes. He could be a severe conservative or he could be a progressive, moderate centrist. He has spoken the language of both in recent history. He changes opinions so quickly and so radically moment to moment on so many issues that I find it -- sort of awesome. And as a thinking person I genuinely don't know what he believes, and that's fascinating. I suspect what he believes in most is ambition and everything else is secondary.
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.
So you're voting for Obama. Sorta. Because there are precisely two candidates with a chance of winning. Most people who vote for Gary Johnson would otherwise have voted for Romney. AKA a half-vote for Obama.