I was supporting Perry and trying to post in those threads and remember the venom and felt bad for CW too, but this activity was going on at other websites as well. I don't see how it would have even been possible for the admins/mods here to shut this vitriol down without taking absolute draconian measures. Remember, pro-Perry threads can be disrupted without anyone outright hurling insults or something - they can just swarm them and ask one another if they're "heartless" or post long boring screeds or something. When Perry entered the race with money and high poll numbers there was a large wave of hate directed at him on many conservative forums.
This was a unique situation and was a result of Palin's tease campaign. She had a lot of activists/grass roots types of people convinced she was going to run - and those people tend to participate on political forums. They'd been preparing for her entry in the race and Perry looked like he would be her chief conservative rival - so the Palin supporters went to work savaging him. Not blaming Sarah herself, she probably had no idea stuff like that was going on - but her "will I or won't I" tease campaign caused a great deal more damage to this cycles GOP primary process than most people understand. The anti-Perry forum hate was just one effect of it.
I am not blaming the management for the what happened on the Perry threads.
I am just pointing out where we are, but Perry got raped while he was not on his best game.
but he aint a quitter and he isnt vindictive.
IMHO he is just what is needed from a POTUS, steadfast.
Many will rip him apart, but the guy is steadfast
Has he made mistakes? Sure!
But 98% of the time he is right on top of what the electorate wants.
The few things he was criticized for like “instate tuition for illegals” where beyond his control. It was unvetoable.
Beyond all that it was an untenable position foisted on the state by the Feds
I find it preposterous that people used that to tear Perry apart. The man was making the case that the Feds were raping the states, but people are so stupid that they declared Perry is the very reason that illegal immigration exists!