“Who would have guessed, the whole time we ABOers were being excoriated, the excoriators were actually secret members of the Romney Underground, who can safely come out of hiding now that it’s VO Day on FR?”
Keavo,
I assume you’ve noticed the growing groundswell of posts by we ABOers in the last week or two. I’m one of the early ones too, and like some of the other early ABO posters, I wondered if I was going to be zotted. As much as I feared that, I was (and still am) far, far more afraid of four more years of Obama.
I too have “suffered” the slings and arrows of the rabid anti-Romney crowd (though I must say I haven’t really suffered that much, because I’m finally old enough that I’ve learned to ignore fools and never to participate in flame wars: I never counter-post to a response that is a content-free, emotional, personal attack.)
I HAVE, however, been somewhat amazed that some folks here hate Romney more than Obama because of their “principals”. It just leaves me shaking my head.
On the other hand, it was my intent with my ABO posts, particularly their tone, to try and make people think rather than to excoriate them. I hoped that my posts along with thoughtful posts from other ABOers would start a shift in attitude here, a shift that would result in a turning of the tide, a groundswell of cohesiveness that ridding our Republic of the odious Obama was paramount to all other considerations.
Indeed, I expected this shift, and noticed its exponential acceleration in the last 3-4 days. I’ve seen such attitude shifts here before regarding lesser issues, and I’ve noticed that they can be precipitated by one or a few courageous individuals taking thoughtful contrarian positions. Partially, this is because there are usually many others that feel the same way, it’s just that they don’t want to be the first to expose themselves to the slings and arrows of those who like to attack rather than have discourse.
HU-RAH: ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!
Give us BARABASS!!!
Thanks for hanging in there, catnipman. I guess I was a bit too embroiled in things to notice the shift as you did. In fact, I was beginning to lose heart last night, wondering if civility would ever return to FR. I must say I was not expecting this post by JR. I’m glad common sense is prevailing. As I’ve been saying:
Romney = philosophical threat
Obama = existential threat