Thank you, Kent.
Nice to see someone’s still reading this thread! :)
Oh, I'm finding the whole thing absolutely fascinating; a genuine, laboratory conditions-type demonstration into why Letting Gibbering, Unreasoning Lunatic Terror Inform One's Decisions is seldom, if ever, a rational, thinking adult's preferred solution to any given conundrum... electoral or otherwise. ;)
As I stated, previously:
"Once you've finally managed to define 'conservative' downwards to the point where all it means -- literally, the ONLY thing it still means -- is "Not Obama": then you're no longer part of any coherent, principled or intellectually defensible political ideology.
All you're doing, at that point, is taking part in an imbecilic, nation-wide version of 'Shirts Vs. Skins.'
"Which is absolutely fine. For children."
I've seen so deplorably many FReepers, on this thread, proudly fetishizing their fears; maniacally attempting, literally, to OUT-DO their fellows in some freakish, Dodo-esque attempt to come out (ultimately) as Craven Coward Numero Uno.
("I fear The Kenyan so impossibly much, I'd vote for C'Thulhu and all his assorted Elder Gods, instead! Booga-Booga-Booga!" "If you wouldn't gleefully chop your own grandchildren up into mincemeat -- and then fry up and messily gobble the remains -- in order to vote for Mitt Romney, then YOU DON'T FEAR OBAMA ENOUGH TO LOVE AMERICA AND *ARRGLE*BLARRGLE*AAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE -- !!!")
I've never seen sweaty, bug-eyed cowardice -- unalloyed and unabashed -- elevated, by a delusional few, into an actual exemplar of "patriotic reason" (or whatever), before this thread.
Would that I had gone quite a bit longer still, before being accorded such an opportunity... particularly on Free Republic.