[RobFromGa]

I don’t know who the Phelps gang is. I just googled it and now I know them by name. FR is obviously not the Phelps gang. I don’t read all of Howlin’s posts either.

I don’t see it. Where is all of this leading?

[Iwo Jima]

I think that where this is leading is that those who have used FreeRepublic to push something fundamentally contrary to the concept of conservatism have lost their springboard for pushing their views. They will have to go to some other forum to advocate their positions.

I am a libertarian who votes Republican most of the time and identifies with conservatism most of the time. Posting on FreeRepublic has never been a problem for me because, to the extent that there is any divergence between my libertarian views and the prevailing conservative views of this website, I do not use this forum to advance any contradictory positions.

That's really not so hard to absorb, is it?

[Jim Robinson]

Well, to many of them, it’s about stripping the conservative Religious Right from the GOP. How they think they can win as liberals is beyond me, but apparently that’s what they believe. And many of them are so fearful of Hillary that they’re willing to accept a liberal just like her because he’s a Republican and they believe the propaganda that he’s the ONLY one who can defeat Hillary. Now that’s defeatism. What happened to fighting for your core values?