Posted on 11/10/2005 10:24:15 AM PST by jveritas
The tone on FR is very demoralized. Liberals and their media unfortunately have succeeded in demoralizing a large number of freepers. From their constant savage attacks on the President and the Republican Party with lies and distortions, to their biased polls, to blaming the President for everything under the sun, many freepers are feeling very demoralized. They are further demoralized because President Bush is not fighting back, because the RINOS in Congress are screwing thing up for the President agenda. Add to that a huge numbers of trolls who infiltrated FR in 2004 and 2005 to divide and demoralize by creating doom and gloom, and piling on the President and the GOP.
So what are the solutions for the demoralization problem?
(1) Stop the knee jerk reaction every time the liberal media write an article telling us that President Bush and the GOP are finished. Stop taking every biased poll as the end of all. No doubt that the President approval is down but no doubt that the polls are so biased to take 6 or 7 points more from his approval numbers. Never before we have had so many polls coming in an off election year and the reason for this is very simple. The media is doing all these biased polls to demoralize the Republican base and it is succeeding to “some” degree as we see from the knee jerk reaction of many freepers. The media is taking any event that is happening and distort it with the most negative spin to demoralize us. Rather than falling for the media lies, distortions and very negative spin we must take anything they write or say turn it around on them and destroy all their lies and spin.
(2) Ask the White House to fight back the lies and distortions of liberal and their media whores. How do we do this? Demand replacing Scott Maclelan? Besides new junkies like us how many people listen to Scott Maclelan? Ask the President to hold a press conference every week to expose the lies liberals and their media? Do you want the President to spend his time fighting every lie and distortion made by liberals and their media? How can we guarantee that the media will cover what the President is saying or what any of his spoke people are saying? Can they just ignore what is he saying?
(3) Put pressure on the RINOS to stop screwing the President agenda. How do we do this? Ask the White to twist their arms? What if the RINOS say to the White House “Screw you”? Ask the GOP leadership in Congress to twist their arms? What if the RINOS also tell them “Screw you”?
(4) Purge the trolls who infiltrated FR in large numbers in 2004 and 2005. These trolls are not necessarily someone who spread Dummy crap on FR. They put on a phony conservative mask and bash the President and the GOP on every occasion. Their main goal is to divide and demoralize. Their job is to spread doom and gloom. Purging these guys can stop a lot of the infighting and the demoralization that is going on. We need to report these trolls to the mods and do not let them get away with this.
but that is still very thin gruel to serve.
The Republican Party, we suck lessTM
From my perspective, there is only one party that takes the Islamofacist threat seriously and deals with it rationally. This is my single issue and IMHO the overiding issue. You either support that party or you believe that the Islamofacist threat is a fantasy.
Because I am so convinced of this truth, I have a hard time listening to a great deal of rhetoric and I hope for the day when the so-called opposition wakes up and realizes that we are at war with a real and lethal enemy that must be put down.
Group hug!
The only people who care about Bush's poll numbers are the MSM and Bushbots. Lord help us if he starts looking for a "legacy".
It's a far larger percentage here than in the voting public. They claim to be conservative but spend most of their energy attacking the conservatives in office.
The problem with the GOP is that RINOs haven't been marginalized or eliminated. But rather than focus on them, the disaffected Freepers blame the entire party. It's quite apparent what their agenda is.
Don't mind, I am recycling a pithy rant from another post, but it belongs here as well.
Dude. I like totally kicked.....totally. I like, swear.
I don't see why criticism of Bush should be outlawed and frankly such a thought is contrary to free speech. The fact is that Bush's team has put out some boneheaded proposals and the President has done nothing to reign in spending, enforce the borders or manage the Supreme Court nomination process. The republican party has taken conservatives for granted and will likely suffer for it. Should I vote republican just to prevent a democrat getting into office when "RINOs" (whatever that means today) refuse to give up pet spending projects or support ANWAR? Free Republic is not the GWB cheer leading section.
Get back to the breaking down and analyzing serious news/events. I never add much to the serious discussions, but I enjoy reading the banter.
Gosh, I thought it was the President's agenda to do a lot of the stuff that I mentioned above.
(4) Purge the trolls who infiltrated FR in large numbers in 2004 and 2005.
Besides this paragraph being at odds with #3, what about those of us here since 1998? It's my unscientific observation that, although the best posters, except Alamo Girl, have left FR since 2001, those prior to 2001 are still more conservative than those in the later years you mentioned.
They took my beer and replaced it with Kool Aid.
Are you speaking of FR conservatives or FR pubs, there is a huge difference.
Road trip!!
- The same ones who constantly predicted a Kerry sweep in 2004.
- The ones who have always and will always hate President Bush and the GOP simply because they do not worship Pat Buchanan.
The rest are trolls or the eternally pessimistic who see doom and gloom everywhere.
I'm with you. Making fun of la belle France is always good for a laugh.
Who's demoralized?
LOL!!!
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