I didn't say you'd shown disrespect. But it's out there.
“...— as it happens, I also think your opinion is misguided.”
That's fine. That's pretty much what I think about folks who won't vote for Gov. Romney even though they know the Kenyan anti-Christ is an abomination for our country.
But although I don't mind disagreeing, I try not to be disagreeable.
I see too much of that between both sides.
“Looking at this thread and discussion versus insults, it seems to me the ledger on insults is FAR heavier on the ABO side...”
I'm not sure I'd agree. It looks ugly all over the place.
But mostly, I see anti-Romneys attack pro-Romneys and pro-Romneys attack anti-Romneys. I seldom see folks take others to task with whom they agree.
A little policing of one’s own side might make some difference.
“I believe that the fact that it is that way, that ABO folks are reduced to insults and bullying, is indicative that ABO is a bad strategy based on bad assumptions.”
I don't think I fit your pattern, here. Like the appearance of a black swan that disproves the theory that all swans are white, my presence might undermine the argument that there is something intrinsically flawed about supporting a vote for Gov. Romney.
sitetest
Indeed you do NOT, and folks like you, who I hope make up the majority of the ABO side, are folks I'm proud to call fellow patriots. Though I hope your black swan analogy isn't a little too close for comfort -- black swans are the exception, not the rule.
And frankly, lies and deception and denial and bullying are tools that I see ABO folks using frequently. On the other hand, folks who refuse to vote for Romney may get a little heated and emotional, but I don't see them being deliberately deceptive (as we've seen driftdiver be here with his "Reagan was pro-abortion" claims) nor do I seem them denying that it's a big gamble and that Obama is one bad dude. I think those of us who reject Romney are doing it with our eyes wide open; I also think that many who are willing to vote for Romney are doing it with their eyes squeezed shut.
The Kenyan anti-Christ is an abomination for our country.
So is Romney for the Republican party and the principles of conservatism, and therefore for our country.
I think a strategy of making whichever one wins as weak as possible is better than risking a landslide for Romney via ABO. That landslide we all know right now would be an anti-Obama mandate -- but six months into his term, many would be working hard to make that forgotten; Romney and his powerful AND WELL FINANCED cadre of Republican moderates would be framing it as a popular embrace of Romney's "progressivism," and the ONLY ones to fight that misconception would be the very ones who voted for him. Romney would view himself as "progressively" leading the GOP "into the 21st Century" with regard to "being responsible" and accepting global warming hoo-hah, while conservatives, who are not remotely as well funded as Romney, watched in helpless frustration as he advanced it with the help of moderates and Democrats.
There's a huge risk the same would happen with the issues of state-run health care, abortion, activist judges, and the homosexual agenda. Conservatives would be powerless and surprised at the positions Romney would take. They'd be kicking themselves for gambling that this guy, who is so lacking in character that he's perfectly okay with advancing abortion and extending homosexual "outreach" to 12-year-old kids, wouldn't betray them. Romney looks like a very bad risk to me.
God bless you, sitetest, and it's a pleasure FReepeing with you.