I still don't understand how anyone interested in Bitcoin can support anything associated with Hearn after hearing anything the guy has to say
If everybody adopts a "do the opposite of anything Mike Hearn suggests" policy, then they've just shut their brain off and given complete control over their decision making to Mike Hearn.
It's a great way to achieve the opposite of the stated goal.
Even if that would make any sense at all that's quite an interpretation of what the guy said...
The point is: don't make this about people.
If you do, you fall into the same system that has doomed politics / representative democracies. You vote for the guy who promises X but doesn't actually DO it. Look at Greece for the most blatant recent example but it happens everywhere.
Stay focused on your opinion of the issues and you can be simultaneously allies and opposing with the same person depending on your respective opinion on ongoing debates.
For example, I disagreed with Cypherdoc about sidechains but agree with him about block size...
(although at this point I do have to recognize that while I still like sidechains technically, he was correct in his estimation of the conflict of interest they might create)