It’s all in his record. Look it up.
And it’s not Huckabee. Conservatives are supporting Thompson and Hunter, the only conservatives in the race. Every poll we’ve run on FR shows FReepers supporting Thompson/Hunter by huge majorities. Thompson/Hunter are currently supported by 80% of all FReepers responding to our poll:
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=207
Free Republic is a conservative forum. We advocate for conservatism and for conservative candidates. Liberals, RINOs, nanny staters and liars need not apply.
Jim,
“Liberals, RINOs, nanny staters and liars”
Direct hit on Romney on all four.
You sunk his battleship!
~”It’s all in his record. Look it up.”~
I’ve seen the record, I’ve studied it here for months. There’s plenty of grounds on which to criticize Romney. He is not my first pick. But, frankly, to paint him in the harsh way that FR has painted him is histrionics - and most of it was generated in an effort to advance Thompson. Well, it didn’t work. Now what?
~”Every poll we’ve run on FR shows FReepers supporting Thompson/Hunter by huge majorities.”~
That’s true, but FR draws a particular kind of conservative - perhaps even the best ones. But to extrapolate that to the Republican base as a whole is a mistake - FR participants are not a representative sample. It’s cold reality, and it means that we will not be nominating a perfect conservative. The time for advocating Hunter, Thompson, etc. has passed. At this time, I’m advocating that we take what we can get when we can get it. That means compromising our choice. Not our principles - we can fight for the rest of them another day. But we’ll have a whole lot less heartburn over our principles with Romney than we will with Giuliani, McCain, Huckabee, or a Democrat.
~”We advocate for conservatism and for conservative candidates.”~
Well and good. But how effective is that advocacy if you don’t win?
I have noting for awhile that there appears to be a organized effort to convince Freepers that Romney is a conservative. I say this because too many posts use the same verbage. Whether is an attack on Fred (too old, lacks energy etc.) or other candidates or support for Mitt they parrot each other and they absolutely lie about Romney’s very well documented record. It follows the same pattern that you see in the MSM when an organized attack on the President occurs...they all say the same thing at the very same time. Just my two cents for what its worth.