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To: Waryone
"I'm tired of RINOs pushing their favorites. We have our conservatives to support. We should be using our time and effort helping them get exposure not helping RINOs."

You're correct. You should give your time and effort to who you support. Is there anything wrong with others doing the same thing for candidates they support?

49 posted on 05/23/2011 9:53:02 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (artemis_webb@yahoo.com --Lord knows how long before I'm banned so please say hello sometime.)
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To: Artemis Webb

Not at all, but when that support is expressed in the “concern troll” format that undermines the supported candidate’s opponents, it should be pointed out.

“Concern Troll” - In an argument (usually a political debate), a concern troll is someone who is backing a candidate, but pretends to be open to supporting a rival candidate, except for their ”concern” about certain named “flaws” of the rival candidate. The idea behind this is that your opponents will take your arguments more seriously if they think you’re an ally just expressing “concerns” about the supposed “flaws” of the opposing candidate.
Usage Example: In the 2012 election, an aide to, say, Governor Smith (R-MN) was caught concern trolling the opposition on forums. While pretending to be open to supporting Governor Smith’s opponent, Governor Jones, the aide argued that Governor Jones couldn’t win because she “wasn’t ready” and had certain “flaws” such as being “controversial” that would prevent her from winning the general election.


77 posted on 05/23/2011 10:26:32 AM PDT by ngat
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To: Artemis Webb
I completely agree. I have no problem with people supporting the candidates of their choice. Dems can support dems, commies can support commies, libs can support libs, socialists can support socialists, RINOs can support RINOs, beltway elites can support beltway elites, Obamites can support Obama -- but not here.

On this conservative site, we need to support conservatives. The others can take care of themselves.

90 posted on 05/23/2011 11:21:54 AM PDT by Waryone (RINOs, Elites, and Socialists - on the endangered list, soon to become extinct.)
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