Posted on 04/28/2016 8:36:16 PM PDT by cowboyway
The year was 2012. Zero was running for reelection and the Repubs desperately needed a better candidate than they fielded in 2008 if they were going to regain the White House.
As usual, Freepers were posting articles and comments about the upcoming election, the candidates running for the Republican nomination, how to defeat Zero, etc. During the primary season of 2012 Free Republics owner enthusiastically campaigned against one of the candidates, Mitt Romney. If the only information that you had about Romney was what FR's owner posted you would have had to conclude that Romney was pure evil concentrated. However, when Romney was nominated to run against Zero, FR's owner reversed course and got behind the nominee.
I became disappointed in what I perceived as extreme hypocrisy from the head of the premier conservative forum on the internet and quietly left the site for several years.
With the 2016 campaign season being free of Zero and shaping up to be one of the more interesting campaigns of our maturing republic I found my password and logged back in hoping to engage in interesting, civil and conservative dialog. Everything looked the same but there was a different feel to the place. A lot of anger, a lot of fear and a lot of hatred of conservatives for conservatives.
I do not particularly like Mr. Trump and expressed my opinion on the subject. Of course that resulted in being attacked with reckless abandon by the Trump faithful. When I retaliated I quickly earned a couple of timeouts and limited posting privileges, in other words, second class membership, while those who attacked me continued posting their vicious slanders against anybody and everybody that wasn't on board the Trump Train. The double standard couldn't be more obvious.
Then, on 4/23/16, the owner of the site pledged total support to Mr. Trump believing that Trump is the only path to victory over the presumed democommie candidate, Hillary Clinton, regardless of the fact that Trump is not a conservative. Freepers who openly refused to pledge their support for Mr. Trump were quickly purged with Trump's exuberant peanut gallery fearlessly and gleefully shouting insults and catcalls for all non-Trump supporters to 'ride the lightning'.
Welcome to Trump Republic.
Opus over.
Cowboyway out.
1030 at night is a poor choice for opus hour or crossing swords with the owner
Best to do seppuku mid morning
Good luck
You’ll be back
Like Jon Snow you’ll be resurrected
Sorry to see you go. Safe trails.
You write, “regardless of the fact that Trump is not a conservative”
I regard him as conservative on many issues. He certainly isn’t a conservative ideologue.
Fortunately, they are the important issues of our age.
I don’t expect him to make me happy by his choices on many other areas.
None of them do, pardner.
Bye.
I reckon it wouldn’t do any good to tell you to Cowboyway up?
Happy Trails and Go Trump Go!
Don’t let the sunset hit you in the ass on the way out, cowboy.
Not a fan of Opuses.
Don’t t like it? Start your own flippin forum.
Cruz wasn’t a good candidate.
Sorry, but the vote has proved that to be a fact.
He should have matured, but he didn’t.
He was more talk than walk.
By the way, this guy sounds exactly like a GOPe guy, sad that we didn't support Mitt more. Goodbye and good luck.
I’m sick of these. They’re all so smart, ethical and good looking and the rest of us mere retards. Screw that.
Don’t let the cattle gate hit you on the way out.
Oh no! Conservatives attacking conservatives, like that TruCon Saint Cruz who can’t even tell the truth about whether he changed his position on amnesty.
T’was also the day that I was in the ER watching TV while waiting for my gurney to be wheeled into the O.R for acute appendectomy. The entire day turned out to be a b*tch.
I don't think the word "purge" means what you think it means.
What Boner had to say about Cruz has a lot of truth to it. There is something nasty about Cruz.
Happy trails lol
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