[Moorings]

There are freepers who are conservatives, even though they see the current situation as hopeless and feel they need to vote for Mitt. These folks are honest and do not try to push Mitt on FR.

Then there are the Mittbots, who are enraged that Jim won't let them take over FreeRepublic to target and reach a conservative audience that they otherwise would have a hard time getting their message to (via scare tactics, ridicule, fear mongering, insulting, and guilt trips). So they try to create problems among freepers.

[greyfoxx39]

There are freepers who are conservatives, even though they see the current situation as hopeless and feel they need to vote for Mitt. These folks are honest and do not try to push Mitt on FR.

Then there are the Mittbots, who are enraged that Jim won't let them take over FreeRepublic to target and reach a conservative audience that they otherwise would have a hard time getting their message to (via scare tactics, ridicule, fear mongering, insulting, and guilt trips). So they try to create problems among freepers.

Bears repeating...often!

[mojitojoe]

and it’s pretty darn easy to figure out which is which. Check their past posting history for starters.

[Norm Lenhart]

I think that’s largely true. But...

If you abandon your conservatism, and lets face facts, a vote for someone with Romney’s record REQUIRES you to leave your conservatism at the door, means that there are other things that can lead you to another compromise of your principles. Like the joke says, “We already determined what you are, we’re just negotiating price”.

Conservatism, unlike republicanism or liberalism, isn’t something one can discarded as a continence/encumbrance for the crisis du jour. It’s who we are to our core. It’s what defines us.

To abandon it for a vote? Then you may share conservative values, but that’s it. They are what they are and we are what we are. Doesn’t make them Olberman’s ‘worst people in the world’, but there’s nothing ‘good’ about backing anyone with Romney’s record.