The tactic you are using may well be just as it appears, but please understand it has been used here by Romney's paid bloggers and other sycophants in the past as well, acting in less than honest ways. You may well be just unlucky in that your approach is similar despite being honest.
There were a lot of games played here by team Romney hacks, and there still are a few, including newbies still showing up, so understand that there is a history here you have stepped in the middle of. It is not personal if you indeed are honest in your presentation, it is just a misunderstanding based on past activities of others.
I’m hoping that is the case. I expected more out of my fellow Freepers than these personal attacks. I work too hard for conservatism to have to “prove my conservative credentials” just to post a blog link, asking for comments, in the BLOG SECTION of a website I’ve been a member of and contributed to for months.