Posted on 12/25/2013 1:01:05 PM PST by Awestruck
Am I the only one to notice that most of the Wikipedia entry about FR is one big hit piece? Or does it not matter because it is editable? Don't meant to be dense...just curious.
Sorry.. I posted as a reply to your comment (note that I did include the person in question) as a means of directing said person's attention to the obvious (which I had already noted here ) that was ignored.
Sorry if I unintentionally caused you bother..
A dead link is not valid documentation.
Even if it’s on Wayback that doesn’t answer why they used an anti-FReeper site rather than directly from FR.............unless, of course, the statement’s a lie meant to smear FR. Right?
I don’t know why they went through TBL instead of using a direct link.
FReepers know why.
It appears that they were right ... I just received the citation ...
Quote from Jim Robinson ...
Well, I just didn’t have many options left. Most all other large conservative sites had already stopped resisting. The other candidates and potential candidates: Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum, even Palin, DeMint, West, Walker and just about anyone who would potentially be the miracle candidate to come out of the convention had already endorsed Romney. Most of the conservative pundits and talkers endorsed him including Coulter, Malkin, Hannity, Rush, Levin, Reagan; Ingraham, et al. Even the pro-life, pro-family sites were endorsing him. Even the Christian sites. And many of the tea party groups. I was beginning to feel like the Lone Ranger here. It was pretty damn drafty with my butt hanging out there like that with only a few holdout sites left and our dear loyal supporters here on FR. And I was seriously losing sleep over this. My opinion of Romney has not changed one iota, but I now think it is more important that we wipe out the Marxists if we can this election and take on the RINOs in the next battle. My personal opinion is not important, especially if we’re just a small group of devout resistance fighters and holdouts. Guess I’ll reluctantly have to join Palin, Levin and the others and go all in with our last choice, last chance candidate. It sucks but there it is. But if he pulls a McLame on us, we’re pretty much done for. Praying for the best.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2920626/posts?page=778#778
Okay, this solves it — there’s no need to make a correction on Wikipedia, because they’re correct.
Quote from Jim Robinson ...
Well, I just didn’t have many options left. Most all other large conservative sites had already stopped resisting. The other candidates and potential candidates: Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum, even Palin, DeMint, West, Walker and just about anyone who would potentially be the miracle candidate to come out of the convention had already endorsed Romney. Most of the conservative pundits and talkers endorsed him including Coulter, Malkin, Hannity, Rush, Levin, Reagan; Ingraham, et al. Even the pro-life, pro-family sites were endorsing him. Even the Christian sites. And many of the tea party groups. I was beginning to feel like the Lone Ranger here. It was pretty damn drafty with my butt hanging out there like that with only a few holdout sites left and our dear loyal supporters here on FR. And I was seriously losing sleep over this. My opinion of Romney has not changed one iota, but I now think it is more important that we wipe out the Marxists if we can this election and take on the RINOs in the next battle. My personal opinion is not important, especially if we’re just a small group of devout resistance fighters and holdouts. Guess I’ll reluctantly have to join Palin, Levin and the others and go all in with our last choice, last chance candidate. It sucks but there it is. But if he pulls a McLame on us, we’re pretty much done for. Praying for the best.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2920626/posts?page=778#778
That’s from August. He didn’t say he was voting for him. He did say that no one would get slapped or banned for backing Romney. Jim said that living in California, it made no difference who he voted for. And THAT link I do not have.
You said — “I’m still waiting to see the edit.”
You would have been waiting a very long time for that edit ... LOL ...
And this is a good example why you should never base “facts” on your own “political persuasion”. The “facts” exist apart from a political viewpoint and/or persuasion. SO ... no matter what you “prefer” you should always fact-check.
It appears that they were right ... I just received the citation ...
Quote from Jim Robinson ...
Well, I just didn’t have many options left. Most all other large conservative sites had already stopped resisting. The other candidates and potential candidates: Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Santorum, even Palin, DeMint, West, Walker and just about anyone who would potentially be the miracle candidate to come out of the convention had already endorsed Romney. Most of the conservative pundits and talkers endorsed him including Coulter, Malkin, Hannity, Rush, Levin, Reagan; Ingraham, et al. Even the pro-life, pro-family sites were endorsing him. Even the Christian sites. And many of the tea party groups. I was beginning to feel like the Lone Ranger here. It was pretty damn drafty with my butt hanging out there like that with only a few holdout sites left and our dear loyal supporters here on FR. And I was seriously losing sleep over this. My opinion of Romney has not changed one iota, but I now think it is more important that we wipe out the Marxists if we can this election and take on the RINOs in the next battle. My personal opinion is not important, especially if we’re just a small group of devout resistance fighters and holdouts. Guess I’ll reluctantly have to join Palin, Levin and the others and go all in with our last choice, last chance candidate. It sucks but there it is. But if he pulls a McLame on us, we’re pretty much done for. Praying for the best.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2920626/posts?page=778#778
Well, that’s the way I read it ... but if you have something different - I’ll be interested in seeing it.
BUT ... since this is his quote and since I do have this - I’m going on this statement right now.
The problem is I work the FReepathon which means a lot of reading. I don’t know if the Boss said it in response to someone or if it was a later thread. I just know he said it.
Sounds like he said it to me, DJ. And I don’t blame him. I felt the same way. I’m tired of the GOP “turn” system. We need fresh blood. But we go with what we have and hope for the best.
If he said differently in a later thread, then he’s contradicting his earlier statement. Now, I believe people can change their mind, however that also has to be shown that he “did change his mind”.
Until that is shown that he changed his mind (if he did) ... what we have right now is this ...
“Guess I’ll reluctantly have to join Palin, Levin and the others and go all in with our last choice, last chance candidate. It sucks but there it is. But if he pulls a McLame on us, we’re pretty much done for. Praying for the best.”
There was discussion of voting for all offices but Presidential. Seems to me it was in that discussion that he said it didn't matter whether he voted for President or not. Being in NY, I'm in the same boat.
because we are too stupid to edit the post at Wiki and manage continued smearing the conservatives take from leftists.
I know what I read. I just can’t find it.
I knew about that, but the Wikipedia says a little more, and is not sourced.
I was well aware of JR having to change his public position on the Romney ticket for freepers nationally, but I wasn’t aware of this statement, and am still not, yet.
“”However, just nine days before election day 2012, Robinson backtracked, admitting he was voting for Romney and a straight GOP ticket. [56]””
Really???
Reminder.. This is the WikiP.D.A. quote "However, just nine days before election day 2012, Robinson backtracked, admitting he was voting for Romney and a straight GOP ticket. [56]" with the [56] directing to the nonexistant link so the statement is unsourced.
Your 'proof' post does not satisfy that statement. It is not a post from nine days before the election (since it was posted in August) and it does not say that he is voting for Romney and a straight Repub ticket. What it does say is that JR can no longer actively oppose MythRomney because he seems to be the lastIn addition, the TBL post reportedly linked in the nonexistant link was also posted in August.
Someone has a strange calendar. And reads more into a statement than is there. For your proof to be valid, produce one (from FR) that actually says JR will vote for Romney and a straight Repub ticket. Extra points awarded if it is actually from nine days before the election.
If you can produce such 'facts' then you would be correct that 'they' were right. If not, 'they' are mistating something, either date, fact, or both and you still have valid reason to edit the WikiP.D.A. article.
Still waiting for real facts not interpretations from your political viewpoint and/or persuasion. In the absence of same, I’m still waiting to see the edit.
should read "because he seems to be the last one standing."
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