Just asking folks on both sides to realize that being against Mitt does not deserve the attack of being called pro-Obama, and deciding to choose the sole remaining GOP candidate over the horrors of Obama does not therefore make one a Mitt lover.
And too many posters are not being honest in representing what is happening on FR (not you, Jim, you have been straightforward with your views, and I have not disagreed with those - in fact, my main concern is not further entrenching the GOP-E). But I can also see where the other side largely has a reasoned viewpoint.
FR does not only have anti-Mitt posts, and is not full of Mittbotts, as some have claimed on this thread. Just a short time ago, we were tearing each other apart over the best anti-Romney. That failed and conservative division paved the way for Romney to win the nomination. Are we going to complete the carnage among conservatives now that Romney is the nominee? The GOP-E would like nothing better. I wish people would just make their points, pro-and-con, without the non-stop bashing of the other side. None of us wanted to be here. But we are. No point in a knife fight in this enclosed space. Only conservative blood is being shed. Not RINO. They are wathing it from afar, I am sure with much joy and bemusement.
The rhetoric is getting out of hand and counterproductive. In order to hold against either Mitt or Obama, we're going to have to get past all this come January. Mis-stating the situation on all sides is not conducive towards that.
Only conservative blood is being shed.
***That is not true. Folks who come onto a conservative website and try to separate conservatives from their conservative principles are not conservative. They’re republicans, yes, but they are not conservative. Their purpose is to sow discord among conservatives, and they achieve that goal daily here on FR. If they were really conservative, they’d be focusing on the RINO squishes and mushy middle.
Man you make a lot of sense. Probably about the best point I've seen on this whole mess.
The reality of the situation is this;
America cannot survive another 4 years of Obama, especially with his Czars, Executive Orders and no need to even try to do something rational to win reelection.
America can survive 4 years of Romney, if it has FR watching him, and if FR does not continue its descent into intemperate eirrationality. FR must regain its posture as the leading site of clear thinking Conservatives, not just screamers who continue to yell “My way or highway” to an increasing smaller group of serious people every day.
Volume or vehemence do not equal victory. Clear thinking that FR has always been known for does. I applaud your desire to return civility and common sense to this forum.