Nope you are correct! I am ashamed of by bad self. I thought FR was the last bastion of critical thinkers on the web, but it appears that many here are just typical knee jerk lib thinkers afterall.
I must confess my mistaken belief that we were too smart to fall for trolling and rampant idiocy, but it seems that the ranks are rife with it.
Therefore, being a like-minded sheep, I will renounce all intelligence and allow the media to dictate my candidates for me because I, like many on this thread, am far too stupid to think for myself ;)
Or you can apply your self-described critical thinking skills and come to the conclusion that FReepers can back any candidate they see fit and not engage in Pavlovian salivating over Sarah Palin.