Ya know "ABO" = just a euphemism for Romney voters & Romney supporters & Rombots.
How do we know that?
Because many of the "ABO" voters/FREEPERS get upset with you when you tell them you're voting for Virgil Goode or Tom H. or are considering writing in somebody else.
All of a sudden, it's not "ABO" but somebody quite specific (Romney). IOW, there has been no acceptance by them of third-party voters.
Besides, if "ABO" was anything but a euphemism for Romney, then even "Hitler" "the Anti-Christ" or anybody as a free-lance "write-in" candidate would be acceptable to them. They certainly qualify to be that "anybody" but Obama!
(And that's not a good way to train up our next generations...to become so fixated upon either the (r) candidate or the anti-(d) candidate that one day your children & grandchildren will be strongly supporting somebody to the left of Obama...just because that candidate happens to be to the "right" of (d)...In this way, (r) and "conservative" then become completely unrecognizable terms)
Great post. You aptly illustrate that on its face the “ABO” title is grossly dishonest.
Your ad hominem attack on my choice of words and your insinuation that I am a Romney “supporter” or “Rombot” is exactly the kind of divisive behavior (frankly bullying) that JimRob has requested that FReepers avoid in his TRUCE posting, IMO.
In my observation on FR most ABO FReepers regard Romney, at best, as a man with no core principles and with clear previous liberal stances, thanks to JimRob providing a platform for Romney's outrageous flip-flops to be exposed to conservatives who might otherwise have been taken in by his current marketing as a “conservative.”
Language is imprecise and sometimes words and terms that are not “perfect,” such as ABO and RINO don't mean the same thing to everybody but are useful shorthand.
This thread is intended to boost flagging donations by making ABO FReepers aware that JimRob posted a TRUCE message, which I invite you to re-read.
Feel free to attack the act of voting for Romney on other threads on the merits in accord with FR policy against personal attacks, but this thread intended to invite sincere conservative ABO FReepers to take notice of JR's TRUCE and DONATE, even if some FReepers appear to want to ignore the TRUCE.
Who the hell are Virgil Goode and Tom H.? Who are people writing in? What are their chances of winning? We pushed for better candidates; we didn’t get it. If people with actual name recognition didn’t make it against Romney, what chance do those folks you mentioned have? Zero.
Is it really a revelation to you that, as of now, “ABO = Romney”?
That’s pretty sad.
I think that's the intention...perhaps a “perk” for how they are destroying our right to vote for whom we will.
It's mind-boggling how some can push for an ABO vote when like it or not there has been conservatives all along in these weeks to opt for....but instead they hurriedly jumped on the media band wagon...and Romneys claim to fame...without looking where they were going.
What would they say for those voting for Ron Paul now, because some are convinced a fruitcake conservative is better than the Socialist agendas being pushed by Romney and Obama?
It's fast becoming clear many here are truly Romney supporters far more than ABO voters.
Now, why don't you and your gaggle of flying monkeys admit that your years long ( and incredibly disgusting) anti-Mormon campaign = anti-Romney? Not that you were fooling anyone.