“They attack us for refusing to vote for a liberal and then accuse of intolerance and being hateful and whatnot..”
It’s only an “attack” if you’re one of those bizarrely pompous posters who view themselves as smiled upon by God for their voting decisions. Bragging about that kind of delusional thinking (there’s your intolerance) deserves a little attention, regardless of who they support or oppose. However, of late it’s come almost exclusively from some who oppose Romney (my last choice, EXCEPT for Obama) with an almost religious-seeming fervor (far more po’d at MR than BO), fueled by the certainty that the Lord loves them best for feeling that way.
That being said, if the shoe doesn’t fit, don’t wear it.
You know what? I kinda think it's more your problem than it is a general FReeper problem. People who refuse Romney on purely religious grounds EXCLUSIVELY because of his stances on abortion and the gay agenda are conservatives worthy of respect. Their thinking is easy to understand: they believe, as do I, that God is more likely to abandon a nation that has abandoned Him, and for me to use my vote to empower an agent of depravity with regard to abortion and introducing homosexuality to school kids (yes, that's what Gay Youth Pride is all about), is to abandon God. That you choose to be offended by the fact that they explain and stand by their convictions, and that you take it as some kind of pronouncment on how much God does or doesn't love you ... ... well, like I say. I think it's more your "issue."
Romney is a liberal politician who has advanced pretty much every single liberal cause I've been voting Republican all these years to oppose. Common sense alone dictates that I use my vote hurt him as much as I can use it to hurt Obama. And that is to vote third party so my vote IS COUNTED in the final tally, and weakens the number of whichever liberal wins, Obama or Romney.