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Support a FReeper for President - TOM HOEFLING aka EternalVigilance @Post #83
Posted on 08/14/2012 1:53:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Well, folks, it happens every four years or so. The presidential election cycle really brings out the RINOS. I have to state and restate FR's positions more and more frequently, because the true blue RINO types simply cannot stand that a conservative site will not support a gun grabbing, abortionist, homosexualist, big government statist.
Last cycle it was Rudy McRomney. Boy, did we ever catch hell for not supporting the big RINOs of the day. Hundreds of true blue RINO supporters fled grassroots conservative FR in disgust when they couldn't get their way and called us every name in the book on the way out, especially, the Rudy cabal.
Where did it get them? The abortionist/homosexualist Rudy didn't get the nomination. We on FR finally decided to support McCain after he was the last RINO standing and he selected Palin as his running mate, but that will not happen this time. And McCain proved not up to the task anyway. He was far too undependable to make it as a conservative, but he was at least pro-life and pro-family and a war hero and that's why I finally relented and gave my reluctant no other choice endorsement.
But Myth Romney is without a doubt the most leftist, flip-flopping, lying, two-faced politician ever to be nominated by the Republicans. We have the most leftist Democrat ever sitting in the White House which ANY Republican should be able to defeat in a Reaganesque landslide, but in their infinite RINO wisdom, the GOPe pushes the most leftist Republican ever.
Why, oh, why would the GOPe risk it all by pushing for and giving the nomination to a man with Romney's abortionist, homosexualist, gun grabbing, big government statist Keynesian record? Do they have a death wish or are they simply trying to move the goal posts even further to the left? Romney is the grandpappy of ObamaCare for crying out loud. He made ObamaCare possible. ObamaCare gave birth to the grassroots tea party movement. The GOPe has done nothing but torpedo the tea party conservatives when they should have embraced us. Sarah Palin was the best thing to happen for the Republicans party since Reagan and the tea party the best thing in a century. Why would they try to kill us off?
We can take a clue from the Rudy McRomney cabal that left FR last time. They exclaimed on the way out that, "The conservatives have held their boot to the GOP's neck for far too long. Never again will guns, abortion, and the gay agenda be important issues for Republicans."
And now the abortionist/homosexualist/shamnesty Rudy McRomney cabal and the anti Palin RINO crowd have teamed up to come after FR again. They couldn't hack it with their wideawakes wankers for Rudy site or their trueblue RINOs for Romney site, so they are now posting their current anti-FR screeds on facebook and on any blog site they possibly can.
Hell hath no fury like a RINO scorned.
One of the RINO's we're talking about is our old friend Luis Gonzalez. He was a big Rudy pusher and would relentlessly trash any conservative who objected. We eventually had to invite him to leave FR and go with the wankers for Rudy. But it turns out he had a sleeper account on FR called "Lancelot Jones."
He recently registered a mole account on FR called "The Duke of Pearls" where he attempted to post the anti-FR screed pasted below. I pulled it and banned his account(s), but it is the one he's now plastering all over the net aided and abetted by his pal and anti-Palin RINO troll, EveningStar.
By the way, it's telling that Gonzalez in his Lancelot Jones mole persona posted the following quips to FR just a couple of days ago:
"If you can't rely on something at the precise moment that you need it the most, because that thing that you need to rely on is only reliable when the circumstances suit it, then get rid of it."
"If the GOP realizes that "purists" will only supprt the GOP when the Party's candidates meet their test, then it may be best to not count on them at all."
"The lesson that the GOP will probably learn from your scenario, is that it needs to jettison purists once and for all."
So, I guess my pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-small government, pro-gun, pro-liberty constitutional stance makes me a "purist" who must be hated and persecuted and run off the net even though my positions on these causes are exactly the same as the official Republican party platform. Very strange.
Here's Gonzalez' latest anti-FR screed that he's trying to make go viral:
Once, a long time ago, if you were an individual seeking reasonable and intelligent political discourse in the Internet, from a right-wing perspective, there were few places as prominent and respected as Jim Robinson’s freerepublic.com. The site counted among its members such luminaries as Tony Snow, Barbara Olsen, and Andrew Breitbar; even Robert Bork was rumored to post in FR.
The site’s users, known as FReepers, were considerable in number, dedicated, and passionate, and Jim Robinson’s conservative brigades were able to launch either spontaneous roadside rallies, or organized nation-wide protests from Texas, to Florida, to Georgia, to Washington DC itself.
- It was a FReeper that ended Dan Rather’s career.
- It was a FReeper that coined the term Sore/Loserman during the Bush/Gore recount wars.
- It was a FReeper that posted the first known report of trouble with the Columbia, as it disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana on re-entry.
- It was a FReeper that photo-shopped the infamous image of John Kerry standing side-by-side with Jane Fonda in an anti Vietnam war rally.
Those were the Golden Days of Free Republic, but the site shines no longer. Mr. Robinson fails to realize that it was individual members of his forum that brought gravitas to the forum, and not the other way around. To be fair, Robinson created what could very well be the best softweare of its kind, but it was the massive interchange of ideas between members, all driven by the e-wave of the late 20th Century, and the animosity toward the Clinton administration that brought the forum into the spotlight.
Alas, Mr. Robinson convinced himself that the message was the medium, when it was the messengers that raised the medium to glory.
Internet blogs are buzzing with reports of a massive crack up in FR, with anti-Romney sentiment standing toe-to-toe with open anti-Mormon bias, FReepers are abandoning Jim Robinson’s burning ship in droves, populating sites like www.gopbriefingroom.com to discuss the chaotic status of Free Republic.
In facebook, exiled FReepers stand amazed at the realization that Free Republic and Daily KOS, bitter Internet blog political ideology enemies, are actually supporting the same candidate for the Presidency this cycle, as FReepers openly support the idea if an Obama win, as such a victory will “teach the GOP a lesson”.
This post from FReeper “Leep”
"Crash and burn America. Hopefully, we can rebuild in 10 or 20 or 50 years…?" The signs are visible to even the naked eye.
Check this statement by the site’s founder, Jim Robinson, just a few nights ago:
“Lastly, we’re having a bit of changeover on our moderator staff. At least two moderators resigned this afternoon after I flatly refused to rein in a so-called anti-Mormon “bigot” on FR.” In today’s Free Republic, no one will be critical of anti-Mormon statements. Jim Robinson once again:
“This website considers the Mormon religion as false doctrine. Period.” It’s nearly impossible to cross the line on criticism of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism at a site where the proprietor dismisses the entire religion as a “false doctrine”.
Robinson, in his refusal to support the GOP ticket seems to understand that he has become a minority within a minority, within a diminishing number of supporters, as he says:
"I doubt there are 10% of the FReepers in agreement with me on this." Ten percent of a rapidly diminishing number of posting members could spell financial troubles for Robinson, as some of the site’s most steadfast financial supporters quietly melt into the night.
Then again, even as Free Republic fades into irrelevance, Robinson’s legacy lives on in an unintended cottage industry of forums offering refuge to FReepers wishing to distance themselves from Robinson.
As one of the members of The Briefing Room quipped recently:
"The FR meltdown is good for business, people are looking for a sanctuary, and a place where sanity still reigns. Our membership rolls are increasing hourly, and they all come to ask the same question…”what in the world happened to Free Republic?”
Sad thing, that what was once such a great notion will crumble and fall under the weight of such a negative and destructive actions, and that in the end, the great things accomplished by the many, will be dragged down into the mud by the few.
God bless you .. thank you for your service!!
Whatever. God Bless you, Jim Robinson, Free Republic, & everyone connected to it!
“And I’m ready to pack my bags for Texas the moment they decide to secede from the United Socialist States of America!! God, bless TEXAS!!”
Come anyway! We would love to have you here!
At least GHW Bush, McCain and GW Bush were pro-life.
Peas are wonderful!! How about Brussels Sprouts?
Why?
There is a greater ballot out there than the 2012 one. “ There is nothing new under the sun “, and neither is going-along-to-get-along, out of fear, as our GOPE history proves. We get worse and worse. For me, to support Romney squish on abortion is no way to move God to mercy. On the otherhand, when the Church prays and repents and shows it, God is moved and a nation is restored.
Because those of us who express our intention to vote for someone other than Obama or Romney get immediately pounced upon by the Romney brownshirts. Anyone trying to start a thread for a third party get shouted down almost immediately.
It seems like FreeRepublic now needs a "Virgil Goode" caucus thread, or a "Tom Hoefling" caucus thread, or a "Gary Johnson" caucus thread.
“We actually did get the house to go more conservative...now we need to do the same to the senate.”
DING DING DING DING DING!
We have a winner!
This is exactly what is important this time around. We can’t do anything in regards to getting a Conservative Executive Branch so we might as well be concentrating on the house and senate.
Screw Obama and Romney both. That is not the battle we should be fighting this go round.
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Support a FReeper for President - TOM HOEFLING aka EternalVigilance @Post #83
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We did block Miers but got Roberts instead. Of course we were all happy about that at the time. No one could foresee that he’d turn traitor to the cause just as we needed him most. ObamaCare should already be dead by now and not even an issue. Bush was not a movement conservative, he was a “compassionate” conservative and McCain was even less conservative. I remember when we all swore, “Never again!”
But Romney’s an out and out liberal progressive leftist and flip-flopping, bald-faced liar to boot, but here they’re asking for our vote? We warned them that we’d never vote for an abortionist, homosexualist statist and I have no intention of ever selling my soul for the GOP.
We have had flame wars and bloodletting ever since I've been here. There will be flame wars and bloodletting after I'm gone.
One thing is for sure, you don't compromise your principles.
Even though I may disagree with you, I'd share a foxhole with you anytime.
5.56mm
Well, they say it’s only a tiny minority who feel this way, so I would advise them that hyperventilating isn’t necessary.
Then you don't have a clue of which I'm speaking. I have no use or anarchy.
Of course, I would have to see examples of what you call “nanny state.” If you mean keeping illicit drugs illegal....that IS NOT nanny state, that is keeping a safe an ordered society.
I you have seen no samples of the "nanny state" of which I speak, you have not been paying a bloody bit of attention. "Nanny state" has not a thing to do with illicit drugs....but you would know this if you paid attention.
Now IF you mean someone legislating the fat content of food, then that would be “nanny state.”
As I said - you have not been paying attention.
Thank you very much, M Kehoe!! Hope there’s electricity in that hole so I can recharge my batteries.
“If you mean keeping illicit drugs illegal....that IS NOT nanny state, that is keeping a safe an ordered society.”
Actually, it’s more of an excuse for JBTs to shred the remaining scraps of the Constitution that we have left.
Jedi, I respect your head a lot, but I stop breathing for a moment when I hear FReepers say, “ we can hold Myth’s feet to the fire once we get him elected. “ How, pray tell, do we get power to do that when we have just given him all of it, over us, along with our vote?
This is the kind of CRAP that needs to stop.
Those of us who will NOT vote for Romney are not being rude to those of you who will. Yet we get posts like the above.
If you want to vote for Romney, go ahead. I won't try to talk you out of it, I won't ridicule you for it. I won't hold it against you in any way.
There is no reason for the pro Romney crowd to post their snide crap like what you just did. And yours was just a minor dig compared to some of the stuff I have read from the Romney camp.
Not voting for Romney does not mean we are staying home. It does not mean we are not voting. We just are not voting for Romney. Of course YOU knew that Southnsoul, didn't you?
That said my theory is not only did looters and liars on the Republican side pick Romney but the RATS worked hard to make him our pick as well. I'm convinced as soon as any Non-Romney gathered momentum Zero's forces unloaded on him with attack ads until Romney was all that was left. That said I'm voting for Ryan and against Obama this time. With Reagan we got stuck with Bush. This ticket has the potential of making Ryan president one day.
Wrong again. I’m making a moral stand, regardless of your less-than conservative opinion.
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