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.
Thank you very much, NurdlyPeon!!
It's a choice between Coke and Pepsi. THAT's the choice.
For the love of God, people, LOOK at the man's RECORD. Anyone -- and I mean anyone -- who reviewed Romney's record without knowing his party, would certainly place him in the D column, and to the left even there. He is a liberal Democrat registered in the Republican party. He is Coke to Obama's Pepsi.
It's not Romney or a true conservative. The party apparatus has spoken, and once again a true conservative will not be a viable option - meaning, someone who has a real chance of winning because they are one of the major party candidates (not because of their philosophy).
Not because of their philosophy, but because of what's on the shelf: Coke or Pepsi. Romney isn't just "not a true conservative." Romney is a died-in-the-wool big government statist who has advanced every single major liberal agenda that I've been voting Republican all my life, in every election since 1976, to oppose, for Pete's sake!!! I have LOOKED at Romney's record. Voting for it is voting for a liberal. Period.
It's Romney or Obama.
Exactly.
If you say, "Not Romney" then you're saying, "Yes, Obama."
Wrong. I'm saying one is the same as the other as far as I'm concerned, and I'll let somebody else make that determination. I'll be voting for a plurality, so that at least whichever one gets in will only have a minority of the vote. His lack of popular mandate will at least make him easier for conservatives in Congress to overpower. If Romney gets a mandate, conservatives will have it WORSE because "the numbers" of a mandate support the claim of Americans overwhelmingly embracing his "progressive" brand of "Republican," so sit down and shut up, conservatives.
For all his warts, the question is not: Is Romney perfect? The question is: Is Obama worse?
In order to honestly answer that question, one has to examine Romney "for all his warts." Very few have done it, though some who have are still determined to vote for him out of pure fear of Obama, nothing else, and hold up as the SOLE hope that somehow, that same Congress that couldn't and wouldn't stand up to Obama, would stand up to Romney.
Among the warts they usually miss is Romney's ruthlessness. Romney plays hardball and he'd be playing it with every conservative in Congress.
Should he win with a popular mandate and proceed to park conservatives in the back seat like children instead of "coming around" like desperate, frightened conservatives and Republicans hope he will, ABOers would wish they never heard of Romney. He IS a LIBERAL. Voting for liberals guarantees a bad outcome. Sad, hard, but true.
The difference is that liberal Romney plays hardball. Obama is a weak fraud. Congressional Republicans and conservatives would unite and successfully fight the latter. They'd get slaughtered by the former.
I'm voting for a plurality.
GREAT POST. Amen.
Correction: to vote otherwise is to risk handing it back to Obama, etc.
Obama is pretty weak. He's weak because he's a fraud.
When you address the site owner in posts to me, you neglect to ping him. It is unlikely that he is seeing your comments.
Just sayin'.
And will you please be specific about exactly what "is happening?" What do you mean by "koolaid (sic) drinkers?" Why is it any of your concern-troll business who leaves the site and why? Anyone who posts here is free to sign out and never return.
Just sayin'.
Explain your cryptic and silly post in terms of refuting or answering my arguments, rather than posting some airy blather about whatever it is that you think "is happening."
Kool-aid drinkers are suicides. I will never barge in on God, and your implying it is disgusting.
Nice.
Sounds just like a Pharisee.
How dare you speak to her like that! How many hours have you devoted to the FReepathon? On how many threads have you posted FReepathon bump requests? How much money have you donated?
You cannot hold a candle to that woman, not even close.
Shame on you.
Do you feed that mouth with the same fingers that you typed all that profanity while you order God around? Do you understand the sin of presumption?
I don't often say this, but IBTZ.
And that is exactly how our country finds itself in the predicament it is now in with our choices being a Communist and a Socialist. Voters should never give up their principles and "settle" for the "good" of the country!
I surmised that based on another’s post and the rabid defense of all things Mormonism.
I had not seen the post where they say they are southern Baptist.
I find it interesting so many rebid defenders of Mormonism claim to be currently Baptists or used to be Baptists.
Thanks for the clarification.
You are becoming certifiable.
You scream “we can not judge”, (which is not Biblical by the way) yet you have spend post after post telling us God hates everyone except those you find worthy.
You are ranting incoherently against nearly everyone here, because we may not agree with you.
I think we are witnessing a complete mental break on your part.
I suggest you seek help. (Yes, I am qualified to say that)
You need to be lifted up in prayer for complete healing and smoothing of your spirit.
We must all lift you up for spiritual healing.
And you come an lecture us about how unChristian we are here on FR and then you post drivel like that! My how quickly you've morphed into a troll.
Especially a Southern Baptist...
Lady you are nuts
I have said it before as well as many others, but don’t you find it curious that so many rapid defenders of Mormonism claim to be either current Southern Baptists or former Southern Baptist.
Homo'a is an island in the south Pacific where the natives have sore butts.
Are you suggesting that God has muscular ears?
DJ, this is just another loser trying to push JR into zotting her, and I'm sure she is taking all her nasty little comments back over to her fringe website saying "Look at me!" to all five of the members.
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