We don’t need counter arguments. I think you underestimate the folks in the hard sciences. They know how to analyze. Look no true scientist likes what the O administration has done in re:science (Chu’s green energy wet dream; the gutting of NASA; and on and on). Don’t sweat the minutia... focus on the things that tried and true conservatives have always focussed on.
I feel in theory you are correct, we should have faith in people of the hard science community. I suppose I have simply been around a few too many who remain in academia and so, just like anyone else who remains in academia for extended periods of time, they have fallen influence to academia’s militant leftist statis quo. And that is why I have heard a few of them say that if the Tea Party gets its way, university researchers won’t be able to conduct cancer research that saves lives. They will just let people die because people who want to do cancer research won’t be able to. Like I noted before, in academia I have met researchers who genuinely believe that. So while in principle I think you are right, sometimes I wish Conservative Republicans could get their message to these people across more effectively.