Now, I've taken away a vote from Obama and another vote from Romney. I may well GIVE a vote to somebody else!
My voting strength is THREE VOTES that way you count votes.
Still, what you can do to make up for whatever it is you think I'm doing is go out there and find an Obot to convert to a Mittbot! That way you can catch up with me in taking away a vote from Obama, and maybe he'll show up to actually vote for Romney.
Be a force multiplier for the Mittbots.
Mu:
Like you, I joined FR in 1998, just a few short months after JimRob.
Previous to that I never bounced to any of the standard leftie websites(TableTalk, Salon.com) but in the 2000 election, FR was inundated by republicans. Not necessarily conservatives, but republicans.
What does that mean to me today?
It means this:
I believe that over the long years, various leftists have planted themselves in FR with the intention of being useful to various leftist causes without outing themselves.
We had the tootyfruityrudy bugzapper thread where about 20 of them outed themselves in freepercides. But there were hundreds of these guys, we only scratched the surface. At the time, if they didn’t necessarily support tootyfruity rudy, they stayed.
The perfect leftist cause has now presented itself: the re-election of Barack Obama. And the perfect “cover” is now in place: the attacks on conservatives as being stupid for hanging onto their principles, rather than going after Obots and converting them to Mittbots.
I don’t know who is a sleeper leftist on FR and who isn’t but based on the simple behavior generated wherein they try to separate conservatives from their conservative beliefs, I would say that there are definitely SOME sleepers here in FR pushing Romney in an attempt to sow division among conservatives.
Again, I have no idea who is or isn’t a closet sleeper but I know there are at least some sleepers here.
There have to be.
For every “vote that isn’t for Romney is for Obama” post that you read, you have to judge for yourself whether it’s worth arguing about.
For one thing, you might be arguing with a good republican who just, as a matter of laziness, cannot try to convert Obots under any circumstances. Even though I think their reasoning is flawed (this is an idealogical battlefield, not a university debating society), I respect their feelings and I respect their emotions.
On the other hand, you might be arguing with a dedicated leftist out to deliver the coup de grace on conservatism.
I just think that’s worth keeping in mind.