Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook?

pigrabbitbear writes "Mother Jones reports that, 'In recent weeks, a host of liberal types have complained that their Facebook accounts have erroneously "liked" Romney's page, and some are floating the theory that the Romney campaign has deployed a virus or used other nefarious means to inflate the candidate's online stature. This conspiratorial notion has spawned a Facebook community forum, and its own page: "Hacked By Mitt Romney" (cute url: facebook.com/MittYouDidntBuildThat)' So what's going on? Is the Romney campaign engaging in some tech wizardry to hijack Americans' Facebook pages? Seems unlikely, but Romney did somehow manage to acquire millions of fake Twitter followers. But it looks like the Romney campaign isn't behind this one — Facebook and its mobile app is."

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Re:Issues

[Anonymous Coward]

Minimum wage
Vietnam service
Abortion
Roe v. Wade
Stem cell research
Healthcare
47%
Gun control
Climate change and greenhouse gas reduction

It was actually not a joke. There is *no* issue which this man has not claimed to stand for just one side of.

Re:Perfect Match

[mcgrew]

I'm sure this is futile, since you sound like either an Obama hater, a Romney lover, or a tea partier, but here we go:

a man who claimed to hate Gitmo yet leaves it open

He tried to close it, Congress wouldn't let him.

claimed to hate war yet doubles down on drone strikes and issues a surge in Afghanistan

The Iraq war (which he opposed) is over, Afghanistan is winding down because the surge worked and we'll be out of there in two years.

claims to hate Wall Street while bailing out (and taking huge donations from) giant Wall Street banks

Rubbish, if he hadn't done that we'd be in a depression so bad it would have made the Great Depression look like boom times.

claims to hate the oil industry while taking huge donations from BP before the oil spill.

Any politician wil take any money offered. If Koch offered Obama money he'd take it, if Michael Moore offered Romney money, he'd take it just as quickly.

On the other hand, during the Republican debates Romney said he wants Roe v Wade overturned, two nights ago said he wouldn't outlaw abortion.

I do agree with you on one thing: The press does not care at all what Democrats will do, and rationalize any action they take. However, the same goes for Republicans. The "liberal media" is a myth; ABC only looks liberal compared to Fox or Rush, who are slightly to the right of Mussolini.

At least when you vote Republican you know the press will do their damnedest to catch them out in something

That's pure laziness; the Republicans make it easy.

Re:Issues

[CanHasDIY]

I believe it was more along the lines of 47% of the people in the US that pay no federal tax...many of which are also on the dole...

You can believe what you want, but that doesn't make your belief fact. Here are Romney's exact words:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Frankly, anyone working (or able to work) should be working AND...have to pay SOME federal tax..I don't care if it is $10 or so....just as long as everyone has some skin in the game, eh?

We all have skin in the game, by virtue of the fact that, as American citizens, we are collectively affected by federal policy. That's a dumb phrase too often trotted out by asshole narcissists.

Do us all a favor and don't be an asshole narcissist.

I don't like it that a large block of people are just voting themselves more money out of the general tax fund.

Yea, well, then demand that corporate lobbyists be banned from DC. I know you must be talking about corporations, since the poor people you so blithely dismiss hardly have access to the resources required to "vote themselves more money."

It's a bit mind blowing, how much influence some people think the least of our populace have over the government, meanwhile dismissing the vast amount of overt corporate influence that actually exists.

Re:Simple mix up

[PopeRatzo]

Sad, funny, what's the difference? I've seen a lot of posts like that on FB, though... "I will unfriend anybody who [has a different opinion on politics]."

Not just politics. I'd bet that you'd find people who will unfriend anyone who has a different opinion on Bleach Subbed or the latest installment of Mass Effect.

But to get back to the politics part, I saw this yesterday and your post reminded me of it. I can understand taking politics really seriously, but I've got enough in-laws from various parts of the former Yugoslavia to know that you can take the tribalism of politics way too far.

We're all used to hearing one side call the other "insane" or "evil" or "the antichrist" or "inhuman" because our commercial media is full of that kind of stuff. But when you start seeing friends or family in those overheated terms because of their political views, it's a sure sign that you've let yourself be used by someone else's political agenda, pumped into your head by some media big-mouth.

It's a shame that more people don't realize that the "other side" is mostly just scared.