The “vitriol” as you call it, didn’t happen until after thousands of words of reasoned civil discourse, increasing which got nowhere against some heads that are probably made of reinforced concrete.
I always got the same parroted cookie-cutter answers until my frustration level rose to all-time highs. I have hit my Popeye “That’s alls I can stands!” moment.
I get very angry when anyone CANNOT see the disaster of losing the senate because of some holy revelation the rest of us are not privy to.
So the socons are going to get it, now.
Which just reinforces my claim that people are too emotional and irrational on this topic. Not to mention, we only need to win THREE Senate seats to make it a tie, with Ryan as the tiebreaker. And Joe Manchin pledged to vote with us to overturn Obamacare in his VA campaign, so we only need 2 pick-ups to do that. Yeah, we could use as many seats as we can get, but I don't think we're headed for any kind of abject disaster in the Senate electorally. The presidency is MUCH, MUCH MORE at risk going by ALL the polling. Romney's unfavorability is unprecedentedly, historically low for a candidate at this stage. We're way ahead on a lot of the Senate races, around where Akin was before the gaffe.