This particular trollish behavior is explained well in this article:
"But the effort is being led, or at the very least aided, by liberals pretending to be grassroots conservatives, as opposed to actual grassroots conservatives themselves.
The premise follows a scheme previously found most often on talk radio programs: a liberal activist calls a conservative radio host, such as Rush Limbaugh or Laura Ingraham, and delivers the line: “I’ve been voting Republican for 30 years, but I’ve finally had it and I’m not voting this year.” Or my favorite: “I’m a Reagan Republican, but I’m fed up and voting for John Kerry.” (Because that is what Reagan Republicans would do, vote for John Kerry.) At this point, the host usually asks a couple of questions and it becomes painfully obvious that the supposed Reagan Republican has probably never voted for anyone left of Michael Dukakis.
The intentions are clear: the caller hopes to make it appear as though there is already a large uprising of conservatives who are rebelling against GOP candidates, and thus, wishes to incite other Republicans to pick up the same attitude and pass it along, leading to the Democrat becoming more competitive. The successes of such a strategy on voting habits are unclear, especially given that the conservative radio host often refutes the caller’s talking points.
But the pretend-conservative act is being carried onto a whole new playing field, one that has become wildly influential over the past few years and one that does not stand to be instantly recognized as a fake. That playing field is the blogosphere, which is then used in conjunction with massive e-mailings to “spread the word” (as one e-mailer insisted I do to my readers/e-mail list) to other conservatives.
The concept is the same: the blog or e-mail claims, first, that the said writer has been a conservative for years and that they have “had it with Republicans.” They then point to an issue that conservatives would likely be upset about such as excessive spending, immigration, or the expansion of government. Their supposed rage over the issue has convinced them to either not show up to vote in 2006, or, in order to really show Republicans, vote for the Democrat instead. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613957/posts?page=87#87
Sure, that's what real conseravatives do, let the Dems take over Congress. (/sarc)
Please, please, please, at long last stop this troll nonsense.
It is not a question of what we want in November, it is a question of what we are going to get because the Republicans in the House and Senate and yes, in the White House, have fumbled the ball from spending, to outright thievery, to criminal dereliction in the enforcement of the borders, to an obvious and cynical manipulation and neglect of the social conservatives, to a toadying to the likes of Teddy Kennedy and thus validating him and his ilk, to turning our education establishment over to the legislative writing pen of Teddy Kennedy, to missteps on judicial nominees including Harriet Myers and inferior court appointments, to public-relations disasters like Katrina, to the failure to push a legislative energy policy which would deflect the voters anger at the pumps to the real villains, the Democrats, to creating an unnecessary and unwanted entitlement for prescription drugs which is destined to drain our treasury.
The list can go on, and on, and on, and I assure you the impending loss of the House will not be the responsibility of a few "trolls."
