This seems to be Moore's view as much as the characters.

I get that Rorschach is descended from Ditko's character, but I wouldn't agree that Rorschach is an Objectivist. Sure, he has a black-and-white view of morality, but so could anybody, including liberals. He'd have to have the oral-retentive love of the "virtue of selfishness" and complain about "moochers" "stealing" from him via taxes to be an Objectivist. Rorschach actually cares enough about other people to try to protect them from being bullied by predators. He's crazier than a snake's armpit and goes overboard a lot, but in his own way he's a service-to-others type.

"How are you today, Walter?"

"In prison."

So, yeah- Blake was doomed by Ozy one way or another...

-Citizen Scribbler

I think the Comedian knows that Ozymandias is sitting on top of the New Order and won't tolerate Blake as a wildcard, and thus knows his fate is sealed. His struggle is whether or not to blow the whistle before the end, knowing that Ozy's plan is probably going to work and save humanity. The plan itself also is of such enormity that it wakens even his sense of morality (and probably shakes out some repressed feelings about Viet Nam as well).

Moore has said in at least one interview that Rorschach's worldview was his best attempt at encapsulating Ditko's Objectivist philosophy; presumably that includes post-Question characters such as Mr. A, where the philosophical influence was much stronger and more openly expressed. Don't forget, too, the famous story where the Question allows criminals to drown rather than rescue them; that's about as hardcore as vigilanteism was allowed to get in a Code-approved book at the time, but you can see the roots of later developments there.

I agree that Moores point may have been what you were saying, and I don't doubt for a second that Moore thought that Roscharch is a conservative viewpoint, but I don't think he is accurate or even complex in his portrayal of the conservative side. But Roscharch is no more conservative viewpoint than Ozy is a liberal viewpoint (as you mentioned fixing the system is a liberal idea, but really killing millions of people is not something that many true liberals would support) They are just complex characters in a complex world that are reacting in ways that they know how to react based upon their inner belief system.

Maybe not, but the types of vigilantes like Rorschach clearly draw from right-wing ideology on crime. I think one reason Moore created Rorschach was to imply that, if superheroes like Batman or Punisher existed in the real world, they'd more likely be nutty reactonary fanatics than noble champions of justice.