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Good Bye FR
me | 7/2/2012 | me

Posted on 07/02/2012 9:52:57 PM PDT by gura

After being on FR for more than ten years I've finally had enough of the brown shirted fascism censoring valid conservative viewpoints. Enjoy your echo chamber of whining syncophants. I'm off to go help Mitt get elected while you bitch and moan about who is or isn't conservative enough.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hittheroadjack; ibtz; iwanthimbad; iwantmitt; mythlover; opus; opusfail; pms; pooropus; psychophant; sycophant; zot
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’m very disappointed in this rant. As you say, we used to get doozies.

I’m also disappointed that no one has written: don’t let the door hit you on the way out.


161 posted on 07/03/2012 3:24:58 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: gura

For someone being here 10 years, I sure don’t remember seeing this name much.


162 posted on 07/03/2012 3:28:20 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: gura

Alas, poor gura, I never knew ye.


163 posted on 07/03/2012 3:51:38 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil)
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To: RavenATB

Kudos for the Tombstone retort !


164 posted on 07/03/2012 4:16:18 AM PDT by Waywardson (If you fear Obama..... vote for Romney. If you fear God... DON'T !)
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To: gura
You think the anti-Mitt stuff is bad now? PUHLEEZE, where have you been?

There are plenty of us who plan on voting for Mitt, I am even giving money to his campain. Yes, the lesser of two evils is still evil, but its LESS evil, so I am going for it.

I dont care what the anti-mitters here say anyways, I have made my decision, and at this point, just ignore them. I understand their views, and agree with many of them, but have made a different final decision. Thats all.

FR is worth way more than that.

165 posted on 07/03/2012 4:32:36 AM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: kik5150
They will all be back after Romney gets Romneycare to replace Obamacare and such. We need to be kind with the I told you so...
166 posted on 07/03/2012 4:34:31 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: gura

Aloha then.


167 posted on 07/03/2012 4:46:21 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Please, God, when I wake up tomorrow, can Joe Biden be President?)
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To: Paradox
I dont care what the anti-mitters here say anyways, I have made my decision, and at this point, just ignore them.

In the past, by this point in an election year this site would be thick with campaign info and tactics. The 'Rat incumbent would be getting trashed and plotted against, the GOP challenger promoted. Grassroots political activism would be organized and reported on for races up and down the ballot.

This year is very different and I think that's a shame.

168 posted on 07/03/2012 4:57:48 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: Lily4Jesus

I discover almost daily that FRiends have disappeared. They’re migrating somewhere - hope they’re taking their guns with.


169 posted on 07/03/2012 4:58:17 AM PDT by mcshot (God bless the USA! OMG PLEASE vote ABO or OWW and our Country dies.)
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To: Waryone
Oh, I think you need to study your history a bit more thoroughly.

In 1967 then-California Governor Ronald Reagan signed the “Therapeutic Abortion Act” into law. As a result the number of abortions performed in California jumped from 518 the year before that bill was signed, to more than 100,000 per year.

Now I'm a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He's a personal hero of mine. But I began life as a liberal, much as did Reagan. Just like Reagan, I grew to question the lies being told by people who I had supported, asking myself “if they intend to do the right thing for America, why do they have to lie about it.” Eventually I began to see that the Democrats would say one thing and do the opposite, or predict one outcome and the results of what they did would always be the opposite.

After a while Ockham’s razor took control of my thinking...”they lie because they're liars, and they damage America because they intend to damage America.”

But the point here is that even into his 50s Ronald Reagan was making political decisions that many of us here on FR would have found “distasteful,” at best. And from my reading it appeared that his experience...and the “mistakes” Reagan made as Governor of California, shaped him into the much more conservative President we saw in the 1980s. I understand that Reagan said that signing that bill was the biggest political mistake of his life...but he did, in fact, sign it.

I'd like to think that Romney has also matured in his thinking through his experiences, and mistakes, as Governor.

I'm willing to see this as a “glass half full” situation in the hope that Romney, like myself and many other conservatives, has learned from experience and observation that his earlier, more liberal tendencies were based in ignorance and emotion, and that like most educated and experienced Americans he grows more conservative with time. Certainly, his recent statements indicate that he may have. And looking back on some of Reagan's decisions as Governor, I think that some conservative ideologues could have easily made the same philosophical attacks against Reagan as you make against Romney, today.

Our choices are rather limited now. So I'm going to support Romney (because there are no better or more conservative options who can win), and I hope everyone else will as well...even if some of his past deeds irritate us. Certainly, some of Reagan's early political statements and decisions would have angered us as well.

170 posted on 07/03/2012 5:15:19 AM PDT by RavenATB
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To: Copenhagen Smile

Here is a FR thread on it

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957926/posts


171 posted on 07/03/2012 5:16:35 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: gura

I’m sorry.
Good luck to you.


172 posted on 07/03/2012 5:21:32 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Osage Orange
Someone leaving because they don't like where the center of opinion is, is one thing.

Encouraging people to leave is website suicide.

Here's a thought: Let those who agree with you on 90 percent of things vent and dissent.

173 posted on 07/03/2012 5:24:40 AM PDT by Tribune7 (Fire Obama)
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To: gura
Really, I don't think my anti Romney mouth-frothing has been anywhere as near as bad as 2 months ago and before. I'm not sure I can really see justification for the post. If it's because of religion bashing, there are significant differences that need to be overcome, but running won't help you defend said faith.

Romney is not a popular candidate, and that's not going to change.

You can do more for him by continuing to support him verbally. Leaving simply tells us he's "not worth it".

174 posted on 07/03/2012 5:32:02 AM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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To: Waryone
First, what you say Romney “said” isn't a quote. You're “interpreting” his words in a very negative way. So let's try to be honest in our discussion...okay?

Most conservatives I know judge a person's actions by the outcome they produce, rather than the political statements made about that action/decision. I'm a big fan of Reagan. I think he was, by far, the best president of the last century. And he is a personal hero to me. But I've studied Reagan's history, and I know how significantly he “grew” as a conservative after he hit his 50s. This is not an attack against Reagan. It is a statement of fact. Like Reagan, I became much more conservative as I grew older, more experienced, and more knowledgeable.

You can say Reagan wasn't “pro-abortion.” And I believe his views on abortion changed greatly later in his life. But the fact is that the legislation he signed as Governor of California resulted in a 200-fold increase in the number of abortions performed per year in that state. So with that in mind I have to ask why should I be impressed by a statement in the bill that says “No abortion except for the health of the mother.” We all know how “health” can be interpreted by a doctor who has a financial interest in performing an abortion. Certainly Reagan...who I consider to have been a very smart man...realized how “non-limiting” that statement really was. Obama told us his healthcare bill would improve access and reduce costs, too...so are you going to judge his intentions based on that B.S.?

175 posted on 07/03/2012 5:42:17 AM PDT by RavenATB
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To: MindBender26
All the old guard being replaced by trolls, Mormon haters, the FRaliban, and power-hungry admin moderators.

There are still enough of us around to make sure the fire doesn't go out.

176 posted on 07/03/2012 5:43:44 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (If Obama was any more thin skinned, he'd have a receptacle end: Dennis Miller)
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To: gura
How can we miss you if you won't go away.

And take Willard with you. Last thing we need is another Socialist in the mix.

177 posted on 07/03/2012 5:50:54 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: HerrBlucher
LOL


178 posted on 07/03/2012 5:53:35 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Dead Corpse; gura; TheOldLady; darkwing104; All
"How can we miss you if you won't go away."
*poking keyboard*
umm, no ZOTTED yet?.. no charred flesh..
not even a spark?

did this opus even register?.. maybe 1.2/10

179 posted on 07/03/2012 6:51:01 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; different flie$". :^)
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To: Graybeard58; martin_fierro
6.5 on the opus scale, dude.

Before I read your post, that was the exact number I had in mind.

Y'all are too generous. It's not nearly long enough for more than a 5. I'd give it a 4 to 4.5.

180 posted on 07/03/2012 7:28:48 AM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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