As far as Free Republic is concerned, here is your answer.
We are Preaching to the Choir in a Church full of empty Pews.
People posting here blame their fellow FReepers for the ascension of Romney while nobody here supported Romney in the Primaries in the first place.
Now that Romney is the presumptive Republican Nominee, those same people are accusing those who are facing that reality and embracing the Republican over Obama of being Romneybots, Romneylovers, Romneyites or Traitors to the Conservative cause.
I am nearing the point of becoming a Lurker rather that an active Poster because the rhetoric is akin to an FR Civil War. I admit I am as guilty as the next guy in passionately trying to explain and defend my “face reality” position, but it is getting tiring.
I find myself wasting hours a day rehashing the same points over and over again as are my adversaries, and we are accomplishing nothing except discord. I don't think this Forum can survive four more months of this, just as I think the Country cannot survive four more years of Obama.
They didn't vote for McCain, so why would they suddenly decide to vote for the far more Leftwing Romney?
That does not make sense.
I know that the day after the big loss the MIttbots are going to go public and blame the Social Conservatives for the loss, but they threw those votes away in 2008 and 2012.
This is an election the GOP-e can lose by being faithless and dishonest with the far more Conservative Republican voting base.
It's not like I'm arguing from a strictly ideological position ~ I"m looking at the numbers and those numbers tell me Romney is not only going to lose, he can't win no matter what he says or does.s
What is worse, even the GOP-e analysts know this.
“those same people are accusing those who are facing that reality and embracing the Republican over Obama of being Romneybots, Romneylovers, Romneyites or Traitors to the Conservative cause.”
That’s because Romney is not a conservative and has no right to the term. He can and will carry the mantle of Republican, that is certain. But allowing him to define himself as a conservative would be 1. a lie and 2. defining conservative leftward. Neither is acceptable.