To a point. But they also spread the lie of Lesser Evil to people whose tools are not as sharp as ours yet. It is never a good thing to give your opponent a platform to lie from.
Look how many people on FR listened to the screaming banshees and bought it. Most now are pissed at themselves. Had they not, and I don’t mean just here on FR, then the GOP would not have gotten the message loud and clear that the base would give them the ‘no matter what’ they did.
So they moderated on marriage, gays, threw the towel on Amnesty and O /Romneycare...As if Romney who CHAMPIONED those issues all his life would have stopped that.
They did all these things to slap us in the face. And idiots want another slap.
I belive the hand wringers tread more gingerly on FR now. They too have seen the force of our rebellion in the case of the 2012 election loss, although Romney helped. A LOT! Lately, they seem to strike and run, true to their type, afraid to engage more than briefly and except in the mildest of terms, for fear of reaching thin ice on FR for harranguing with their blame-prattle on the rest of us.
Fortunately, these whiners are not in charge at FR, and are in thinning supply at large, especially when it comes to Romney and his like types straight out of the RNC.