[McGruff]

Many Freepers have been telling this board for months that we were staying home if Romney was the nominee.

You sir are no Freeper. Even Jim compromised his principles to try and stop what will happen in the next 4 years. Barack Obama thanks you for your lack of support.

[delapaz]

JimRob has yet to delete/suspend my account. I make no bones of my position since January. So like it or not, I’m a FReeper. And I’m not the only non-Romney voter around here.

[muawiyah]

Conservatives showed up at this election in strength equal to their 2008 showing. Where were the Rockefeller Republicans, the Republican moderates, the GOP-e? I doubt they could show up ~ more important to tend to polishing the brass on the yacht or something ~ they gave at the office (to the corporate PAC) and others could take care of it from there.

Seriously, we never figured out the reason for the drop off in 2008, so it's not likely we'll figure out why the drop off stopped in 2012 ~ maybe desperate people clinging to a rotten log in a tossing sea? There are so many similes we could use for this one.

But this election showed no new additional drop off in the Republican vote ~ just the absence of any growth ~ and that's not due to an absence of any particular traditional Republican demographic ~ penicillin took care of that age old old age problem anyway.