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The antics of the Mittbots brought two things in to perspective for me. First that Mitt has serious POLITICAL issues for Conservatives. Second was the number of his supporters that were using the same basic strategies and a uniform method that I have never seen before that lead me to realize that those particular posters were his religious peers. That in turn lead me to looking into the LDS faith and find them using the same patterns used in the “defense” of their faith in the form of a business here on FR.

I find promoting a religious peer despite their obvious and unacceptable shortcomings as it pertains to the very principles you supposedly espouse to be no more attractive from the LDS than it would be from the Evangelical Huckabots.

But it became abundantly clear that the LDS have much more practice in the arena of “selling”.

One last little irony. I found the most disgusting and vile personal attacks on other Conservative candidates and their supporters, especially FDT, to come from the supposedly saintly LDS posters. Even more ironic several of them we ones that often post how wonderful they and their faith are on religious threads as well as being the first to yell Bigot and throw the victim card if their guy was even looked at wrong.

I support that post word for word, those Romney threads of 2007 changed me as a freeper, when you challenged Romney back then, you either got hard and thick skinned or the Mittbots and LDS would devour you and send you packing. Many of those guys were pros and powerful devotees that had been brought in to join FR, you could often see them sign up in small waves, and brother let me tell you, underneath that warm image are people that turn almost demonic when challenged deeply.

It was on those threads that for the first time in my life that I saw the Bible casually dismissed for being an invalid source for Christian evidence when it disagreed with another book written by a guy in the cowboy days, I was amazed to see the same posters make the same claims over and over about Mitt Romney’s record or actions even though they were shown the actual videos and documents of him doing the opposite, no reason or evidence could penetrate their talking points mantra, they simply ignored it and chanted their sales pitch again.

The old Romney threads were a journey into some kind of cult like madness, we still see a little of that now and I assume that it will return in full force at some point close to the 2012 primaries.

You both have a very interesting perspective; however, I never seriously believed - as a lurker - that there were more than maybe half a dozen real life individuals, who were using dozens of posting I.D.s and although they ACTED like they were being Mormons, those very few paid posters running a perverse polical PR campaign only convinced me of two things:

ONE: to never, under any circumstances to vote for Mitt or Meg Whitman for anything, and

TWO: to distinctly distrust everything I read online that cannot be verified offline.

For you see... the online campaign at FR was so ridiculous that it turned off lots of people, even lurkers.... and therefore, would it not be just as possible for an Enemy Competitor to run a similar campaign, pretending they are for a candidate, while actually trying to disgust the other forum participants???