Got mobbed by blind cult worship -”if” I remember things right right.- The kind they accuse us of...but real. Dunno if that was all of it but I do remember a lot of people losing their heads over the mere mention of her name on FR.
It started off gradually, from what I remember. A few folks expressing doubt or dissatisfaction with Palin of some kind or another. That was fine. We were still having normal discussions - some even heated.
Then a new and wholly unexpected tone emerged - one of real viciousness. Some of it may have been a natural outgrowth of strong disagreements between posters, but there were a (very) few who seemed to start off with the ad hominems and snark, and who seemed to have little interest in getting back to the normal discussions we were having just previously.
That was a tough period for Palin supporters on FR. It actually took most of us a while to figure out that there was a new breed walking amongst us, and that they had no intentions of maintaining anything like civil discourse with us.
Like the lefties who went after Sarah in Alaska, they seemed to want nothing less than her complete destruction. It was just mindless hate, and was really difficult to deal with.
We've come a ways since then. There's now no question that Palin is vehemently and irrationally opposed by some who post to this forum.
I can understand folks who simply haven't been sold on her. In my view, they just haven't spent enough time really studying her, her record, and where she stands on the issues. Some others have bones to pick with her that haven't been resolved. I understand that too.
What I don't understand are those who repeat the same negative talking points ad infinitum, despite the fact that hundreds of others have patiently taken those talking points apart, bit by bit, hundreds of times. In my view, that's a personal issue, which can't be resolved by simple discussion.