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Good post Sam Adams.

I finally have reached a point in my life where I can donate monthly. I’ve been here since August ‘98, so I’m starting my 15th year. Husband of Marie Antoinette, and the Lauren that we took to DC for the FreeRepublic March for Justice. That guy! Worked on the stage crew and everything.

I went through many crushing years of financial struggle, and I’m glad I can finally donate, so I signed up for the monthly.

I was really, REALLY annoyed that Romney won the nomination, but I got just as annoyed that, just when Romney is starting to show me just how much fight he has in him, and picked Ryan, the ONE GUY that has ever got in Obama’s face, that JimRob posts an anti-Romney thread that went over 4,000+ posts.

You can imagine my frustration. I’m donating to a guy that is working against the better of the two guys that are running for President. Damnit!

However, I used a link to that very thread to convert a Democrat leaning friend of a friend who is gay, and his main issue is gay marriage, and wouldn’t you know it, it worked? He’s voting Romney/Ryan.

I very nearly undid my monthly donation after the big 4k post anti-Romney thread, but I’m continuing on. Jim, I love ya man, but I have to vote for someone that can win, and it seems to me that Romney is willing to poke Obama right in the eye with a sharp Ryan-shaped stick. He can do math, and deal with reality, and I think it’s a huge step in the right direction. Gay stuff and abortion stuff is important, but right now it’s on my back burner. Save the country first then worry about stuff like that.

Thanks for the reminder about the March for Justice - hard to believe it has been nearly 14 years. I can still remember making the decision to go and pulling my kids out of school the Friday before so we could drive down that day and be there for Saturday. My kids missed Halloween and to make up for it, we bought them bags of candy (for 1/2 price) for the drive home on Sunday and they were eating candy all the way back to Boston. I remember what a perfect weekend that was and saw the potential for a site like Free Republic. That's why I want to help end the infighting - so we can be a great community again that can once again put an event like that together. Hopefully it will be celebrating something and not protesting something!

BTW, it is great to hear you are back on your feet financially and can become a monthly contributor.

Thank you very much, Big Giant Head!!

The March for Justice was a truly inspiring event and that was entirely due to the FReepers. Will never forget it for as long as I live. The FReepers who attended and the ones who worked so hard to make it successful are true patriots!!

I’m very sorry if I get emotional. Pent up emotion is what drove me to start FR and also drove me to go to DC. I’d never done anything like that it my entire life. I am not a protester. Totally missed the 60’s as I was off fighting the commies.

I had been posting against Clinton and the dem’s corruption for several years on Prodigy, but was frustrated that there were only a few hundred posting and reading on that private ($$$) forum, so decided to open up the discussion to the entire world on the Internet where anyone with a computer and modem could read our posts for free.

Within a couple years after opening the FR forum I was threatened and sued by the ultra liberal progressive LA Times and Washington Post, but being the stubborn, emotional man that I am, I was bound to continue trying to save my liberty so spat in their face.

Then in the fall of ‘98, some of Clinton’s unionist/communist goons viciously attacked one of our FReepers who was peacefully protesting in the City of Brotherly Love (Brotherly love? Now ain’t that the truth? How far we have fallen). When I saw them attack and draw blood on Don Adams and his sister broadcast on the nightly news I told Sheila, that does it. I’ve got to go to DC. She agreed, so I posted that on FR and the FReepers agreed, and many started making plans that night to join me and the March for Justice was born.

The March for Justice was a beautiful event. Thousands of conservatives and Republicans turning out on a sunny October day, in DC, to openly protest on LIVE TV and call for the impeachment of a corrupt democrat president. Republicans are usually too reserved to get out in the public and protest, but not on this day. And it was broadcast live on C-Span and we began getting emails and new sign-ups from all across the country.

My own nephew saw it on TV and later told me that he was shocked to see me “call out” the president of the United States and challenge him to a fist fight on our stage. I didn’t even realize I had done that until I watched a replay. Sure enough, I got so emotional on that stage that I pointed across the green lawn toward the White House and told Bill Clinton that we had been here on this stage in his back yard for several hours insulting him and his wife on national TV, and if he were any kind of man, he would come over here to defend their honor and he and I would go to town, right here, right now!

Well, we eventually lost, er, settled the million dollar lawsuit with the Washington Post and had to start excerpting, but we didn’t lose the fight with president Clinton. He did get impeached and that’s in the history books, though the wimpy Republican senate led by turncoat Trent Lott let him off the hook. I lost a lot of respect in the Republican party as a conservative force that day and other than a few shining moments with GWB, the Republicans have continued their squishiness trend ever since.

I do get emotional when I see liberty spiraling down the drain. Free Republic is dedicated to securing the Blessings of God’s Liberty to ourselves and our posterity. I’m now nearing the end of my days on earth, so it’s starting to get urgent for me. I regret that I have but one life to give for our children’s liberty. And I hate to see the Republicans piss it away with the very worst liberal progressive candidate ever to run for the presidency as a Republican. That’s just the way I am.

Thank you all very much for putting up with me.

God bless.