“Romney is merely filling a vacumn, left because of no obvious solid conservative frontrunner.”
Romney is just a typical northeastern politician.
There is a vacuum of conservatism because there is no National-to-Local organizational continuum to incubate conservative candidates.
It’s certainly not found in the GOP. The GOP is the “Big Government” party, as opposed to the Dems “Bigger Government” party.
I don’t know why conservatives can’t make more effective inroads into the GOP and effect conservative changes. I think the reason might be that the national GOP is willing to falsely trumpet belief in certain social issues important to conservatives as a trade-off for leaving the big-government status quo alone.
That’s apparently been good enough for conservatives thus far - and the strategy hasn’t even been effective for conservative social issues if we look at what has been done even when there is GOP control of the House.
I guess it makes people feel better that they can call themselves conservative. They don’t actually have an expectation of their candidates getting elected.
Sort of like zotting supporters of certain political candidates - it makes some people feel better - allows them to claim certain conservative attributes in online social circles, but really doesn’t accomplish a whole lot other than that.
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Well, a couple things zotting definitely accomplishes is we don’t have to read their obnoxious propaganda or their hateful anti-Christian posts or endure their vicious flame attacks on FR and it ensures there’s one less promoter of godless liberal abortion and homo “rights,” etc, on FR.
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Those who don’t share our values and goals can post here to a certain point, but as soon as they turn vicious or aggressive in attacking our positions, principles, beliefs, candidates, causes, goals and or other FReepers, etc, they’re very likely to get the zot.
That’s the way it is and always will be. Those who don’t like it can leave.