Thanks for your reply. Whether or not you intended it, you cast some of the known trolls in an entirely different light. Iow, you opened my eyes to an entirely new possibility.
My tendency has been to look at trolls and Obots as pretty much identical/interchangeable entities. But what if they’re not? What if some trolls are Obots and some are Republicans?
To appreciate this possibility, imagine the following scenario. Suppose there was a very active, passionate grassroots Dem group, the equivalent (for them) of our own TeaParty. Suppose this group relentlessly hounded Reid & Pelosi, attacked them mercilessly and worked day & night to defeat them in the primaries. Suppose this group turned out to be a massive headache for the Dem establishment leadership. & even suppose they began to enjoy electoral success, knocking out at least some of the cronies of Reid & Pelosi, if not quite yet the big two themselves.
Now how or why would we, conservatives, hate that group? We would not like or appreciate their politics/platform, but we would view with glee the troubles they were wreaking upon Reid, Pelosi & the Dem establishment at large.
You know who would really hate them. Well, that’s obvious, isn’t it? The Dem old guard/ruling class would hate them. They would in fact hate them even more than they hate conservatives, if you can believe it. It would be sweet to watch.
So now focus back on what we do have. Namely, a TeaParty taking relentless a i m at Boehner and McConnell. & yes, they hate us. They hate us way, way more than they hate Dems. It’s deep & visceral. It’s not too much to say, it’s all consuming. The GOPe flat out *hates* the TeaParty.
So why would the GOPe not have their own set of trolls? They’ve seen to it that they have (taxpayer) $ to burn, & every conceivable perk. Surely they can spare plenty of interns and/or low paid aids to lurk on conservative sites. These people would not have to pretend to favor Republican principles overall. They aren’t passionate about them, but they could at least put up a convincing blind w relative ease. I.e.: they would find it easy not to sound or act like Dems.
What they would oppose is anything that makes the GOPe leadership uneasy or that casts them in a bad light. For instance, the GOPe is petrified of the ‘birther’ issue, so their troll flacks would mock & ridicule that.
The GOPe also doesn’t want to have to investigate voter fraud. If they did, one thing would lead to another and they’d end up having to endorse many TeaParty ideas/ideals. [I.e.: if it came out into the open to what degree Obama & co have cheated to win, even the GOPe would have to take a stand & act. That scares them witless, so they dare not open that door, not even a crack.]
I’m sure there are other issues GOPe trolls would attempt to finesse as well. Of course, they’d know to tread warily on amnesty. That might be too hot even for a pseudo conservative troll to handle. But anything else that serves McConnell’s & Boehner’s best interests would be fair game.
Or so it seems to me. I, for one, will never view trolls in quite the same way again. Thanks for engendering those thoughts. I’d have never considered them w’out your input.
The way to win elections is to offer "independents" more goodies than they get from the Democrats, but much more efficiently administered.
Socially speaking, whatever, OK? You want "Gay Marriage?" You got it. Live and let live, right? Besides, Gays do wonders for real estate values!
We NEED amnesty! José has done wonders for the lawn. María is an absolute wizard in the kitchen. Good people. Let's mak'em legal. Let's mak'em citizens. With those solid Catholic Family values, they are going to vote Republican!
Can't we all just get along? (As long as they don't want to join the Country Club.)
Soccer Moms want more spent on education? OK fine!
Vote Fraud? It's miniscule. Voter ID is racist. Nothing wrong in this district. Boehner has been our man forever! Can't we all just get along?
IOW, the GOP has become a party of Fabian Socialism, just like the Democrats. Of course, they are a bit more Fabian than the Democrats. But that's because they are nicer people. "Say, if the Democrats are going to win all the elections anyway, why not carve out some nice, safe, suburban seats?" That way they have a place at the pork buffet and don't have any actual government responsibility, leaving them plenty of time to protect the larger contributors with special deals from the agencies, and make sure they get paid. But enough about Boehner. Conservatives? Tea Party? Those people are a danger! These deals took a good long while to work out and we certainly don't want them wrecked by those people!
We just want to avoid controversy and just go along to get along and get rich as the Democrats.... plenty to go 'round! That's only fair.
Given the sweeping demographic changes, the setting aside of the Constitution, vote fraud, the unchecked power of Federal Agencies who report to no one, and the dumbed-down electorate, if this Republic is going to have another century, if we are to have normal individual freedom, it will have to come from the bottom up. That's why I am training on the Convention of the States. It's looking like a next-to-last-chance.