>>Att’n: gondramB — Above see a timely and shining example of what I was telling you in my post #179 above — a Romney supporter displaying ugly pettiness in blaming those who reject Romney for Obama’s presidency. It is an ideal illustraion of why Diogenesis and other Romney rejectors — called “Romney haters” by Mitt supporters — get so ticked off when we see well-meaning, gullible conservatives praise Mitt “Eddie Haskell” Romney when he whispers sweet nothings in their ears and tells them what they want to hear.<<
I believe you that were legit problems. I believe that response was appropriate. My comments went merely to the ethics of how we treat each other.
We have our reasons for sniping even at those who don't support Romney but "like what he says" -- it's a warning we want to relay: praise Romney at your own risk not because it offends us, but because of what Romney sychophants will do with it. We have seen it demonstrated right here on FR literally hundreds of times that Romney supporters are unique in that they possess profoundly negligable ethics in how they treat fellow Republicans with regard to their candidate.
If you utter even the faintest praise for Romney, believe me ... it's like feeding a pest Blue Jay or getting into a discussion with a door-to-door Jehovah's Witness team. One opens a can of worms. Example: Toward the end of the primaries, Rush Limbaugh gave Romney a faint and walking-on-eggshell carefully-worded summary (I wouldn't even call it praise) of Romney being "probably" the only candidate to "embody" the three legs of the stool of conservatism, in a monologue that was NOT about Romney, but about what the other candidates were ignoring. Another time, Rush praised him warmly for a speech he gave on Religion in America; during that second speech, he did NOT praise Romney's politics, but his eloquence in defending religion, and he made a careful point of saying twice that he was not endorsing anybody.
Yet Romney supporters to this day post on FR the blatant falsehood that Rush "endorsed" their guy. One has even gone so far as to write, repeatedly, that Rush "said on his show" that he voted for Romney in the primary!!!! And Rush is far from the only one. Romney people distort and misrepresent eagerly and happily to suit their own fantasies. Even praising Romney faintly is inviting bad mischief, distortions, and outright lies from Romney people, and because we know it so well here on FR, we tend to come down pretty heavy even on those who dislike Romney but think he "deserves due credit." We not only think he deserves ZERO credit, we think he deserves to be treated with extreme skepticism and prejudice.
I don't know for how long or how regularly you frequent Romney threads. I have been reading them faithfully ever since a "conservative" talk show host I respected very much and listened to for years, Hugh Hewitt, began promoting Romney. I thought if Hugh liked Romney, then Romney might be pretty good!
The more I read of Romney's own words and learned about his governing record, the more I saw a pure apple-shiner Eddie Haskell big government Daddy's Home Republican of the type I will battle and fight to keep out of office ALWAYS. I couldn't believe Hugh could be so gullible. But there is a certain very large segment of Evangelicals (Hugh is one) who do not know that they put appearance and style over substance, frequently.
When I see Romney pitched and promoted to the GOP, I regard it as a call to arms. I hope you understand that Romney is NEVER deserving of praise. He's like the apple-shiner little suck-up we all knew in school who says beautiful words that schmooze all the grown-ups and when they praised him, we rolled our eyes. The stakes are a lot higher now, but still -- anytime you see Romney praised, understand that it's bad news. Romney is bad news all around.