Posted on 04/17/2012 4:47:30 PM PDT by Williams
Well it's been about 13 years forgot my initial sign in name, so pretty much from the beginning.
Never wanted to write a Free Republic Opus, love reading news stories here and commenting every day.
Would rather not go out in anger seems pointless.
Then today the owner of the site called me a RINO (I'm not), surrender monkey (not) and told me to write my opus and get out.
My sin was fighting with someone who suggested Obama losing in the latest poll is "bad news".
I could list all the insanity of what is going on here. I've tried to approach Jim Robinson in email to gently suggest the problems we are facing. It's clear from that he is not interested in discussing and resolving anything, which is a shame.
But what kind of man, American, conservative will I be if I worry more about losing my 12 year old screen name versus standing up to people who are espousing the advisability of reelecting Barack Hussein Obama, and yes if I fail to stand up to the owner of a site for calling me a liberal when I am a proud conservative?
What Jim Robinson is doing cannot work because first of all he is NOT attacking the posters who say it is best to reelect Obama. He's offended by anyone who says he is thereby supporting Obama. But he doesn't mind calling us names when we attack the pro Obamas.
OK folks, it's not going to work. You can't really oppose Obama's reelection if you may also oppose the republican's election.
Free Republic has become a house divided against itself and it cannot stand.
I'm a conservative I love my country, I have to wish away to the cornfield anyone who would assist in the reelection of Obama, from whatever misguided motivations.
I stand with Dick Cheney. The other day I had to fight with someone disparaging Cheney here. They were not criticized by the owner.
Jim Robinson owes me an apology. Not planning on getting one. The sad fact is I am not writing this because I'm offended. It's because I want to no longer assist here in the destruction of my country by those who will, to varying degrees, assist in Obama's reelection.
Six or seven liberals on the Supreme Court? Maybe atomic destruction down the pike after our disarmament. Israel destroyed. 2nd Amendment neutered. Obamacare used to deny people medical care based on age and political beliefs. Racial strife. A welfare socialist state. US attorneys going after republicans.
My wife is a cancer survivor who reasonably fears that in the future they will deny her care because she is a registered republican. And she's no RINO, she hates Obama and she won't read Free Republic stories anymore because of what is going on here.
We have a real country and real lives out here that go beyond Jim Robinson's ill advised name calling against sincere conservatives who dare to disagree with him.
So F anyone who calls me a RINO for standing with Dick Cheney and against Barack Obama. I hate RINO's and I despise misguided so called conservatives who do anything to reelect Obama.
13 years, but it's nothing when put to the wall on my beliefs against the left wing democrat party. I have too many mirrors to look in. The people here who are every day posting that it will be best to reelect Obama, should be thrown off. Instead, well...
It's over.
Why resort to childish tactics like those used on the left?
Mitt Romney is, by his own definition, a moderate left of center so-called Republican.
Just because political figures in the party get behind the nominee doesn’t mean they’ve thrown their beliefs out the window. Everyone with a brain knows Cheney is a very rock solid conservative. He’s also high up enough he’s backing his party. Fine. I’m sure if he’d like to be frank he’d also admit Mitt isn’t his #1 choice.
But to confuse the issue by trying to defend Romney as “not a RINO” because true conservatives are now rallying behind the nominee is sophomoric.
Or worse, doing a “nana nana boo boo” saying “well Cheney and Ryan and Pawlenty and blah blah blah” are supporting Romeny so they must be RINO’s too! And what bounces of me sticks to you!
Grow up and debate like an adult.
Hysterical straw man mule muffins.
I live in Utah. I'm voting for Sarah Palin. If Romney is the republican nominee, he'll take MoTown handily. And don't be calling me a RINO. I'm not a republican. Never have been.
That is a perfect analogy of the choice between 0bama and Romney. Both are pro-abortion and have voted for pro-abortion measures.
no one is demanding perfection.
Romney is not even moderate but a leftist.
Well some people better start growing up around here.
Humans are not capable of not doing evil at one level or another. We are imperfect and sinners all. If the requirement is not being involved with evil the only way to comply is be dead.
He was pro-abortion, a former democrat, a union president... Not to mention a mere Hollywood actor. Clearly a RINO.
Careful there, Sparky.
Without context you risk insulting one of America’s finest ever presidents and a hero to a lot of good people here.
It is worth considering. But a vote based on fear is a recipe for disaster. If we are so far gone as a country that we ‘have’ to elect a rabid liberal or a rabid marxist, I would suggest that America, as in the America you and I knew and loved, is already over.
My America, If I am honest, died a long time ago. Is what remains, the country we live in today going to be returned to constitutional governance by electing a man who refuses to follow it or the other man who refuses to follow it?
It’s time to stop ‘hoping for change’ and accept the fact that we will only change it for the better if we stop lending our vote, and thus the power, to the people who do NOT want to change it.
It’s going to hurt, it’s going to suck. But you do not get positive results when you run the same flawed experiment 100 times. And Ben Franklin addressed the ‘security’ of ‘buying time’ issue 200+ years ago.
They can go post anonymously anywhere they choose or find some other blog site to espouse. And eventually I'm sure they'll whine about the rules there also.
And that sounds really adult................
You just don't get it. You think there will be a snowball's chance in hell of ever overturning Roe v Wade with a majority liberal Supreme Court? You think gay rights won't be the law of the land with a liberal majority Supreme Court? You think Global warming LAWS, eco MANDATES banning drilling won't be the law of the land with your flexibility president?
Go ahead and stand by your principles. If CommieO is elected again, let's touch base in a few years and see how it'll all be working out for ya.
That is exactly it. and from there it will progress to any anti-individual mandate thread being a pro-Obama thread and any anti-abortion thread is a pro-Obama thread and any critical comments about AWB is a pro-Obama comment and so on and so forth.
These posters are no longer conservative. They want to avoid the truth and suppress facts about their own preferred candidate. That is exactly what happens when you abandon your principles.
Heh. You're high. :-)
It is worth considering. But a vote based on fear is a recipe for disaster. If we are so far gone as a country that we ‘have’ to elect a rabid liberal or a rabid marxist, I would suggest that America, as in the America you and I knew and loved, is already over.
My America, If I am honest, died a long time ago. Is what remains, the country we live in today going to be returned to constitutional governance by electing a man who refuses to follow it or the other man who refuses to follow it?
It’s time to stop ‘hoping for change’ and accept the fact that we will only change it for the better if we stop lending our vote, and thus the power, to the people who do NOT want to change it.
It’s going to hurt, it’s going to suck. But you do not get positive results when you run the same flawed experiment 100 times. And Ben Franklin addressed the ‘security’ of ‘buying time’ issue 200+ years ago.
Not voting for Romney being a vote for Obama is as stupid as believing not wanting Hitler to win WWII is support for Stalin.
FDR believed that so I guess you are like him. See how stupid analogies can easily be made?
There it is.
The next step.
Any and all comments that shed a bad light on leftwing Romney must be stopped! Wow.
That is where it is headed.
Pretty soon they will be descending on posts and articles that shed bad light on the individual mandate, abortion, gay agenda and whatever else to condemn it as helping Obama in some way.
It's coming. Wait for it. (or not)
They want Free Republic to abandon its conservative principles to schill for the leftwing Romney.
Google “sarcasm” or “pointing out absurdity by being absurd”. Geez.
Where in Romneys' illustrious and leftwing record do you see any evidence he will appoint non-liberal justices to SCOTUS???
What possible reason would he have to change?
Let me guess.... you will "pressure him"?? The same people who voted for him and would vote for Stalin with an R next to his name, NO MATTER WHAT, is going to somehow "threaten" or "pressure" to move to the right??
lol. They got your number. They already got your vote no matter what they do, what kind of pressure will they ever feel from you?
I totally get it. You think that conservatism is situational and to advance it, you must abandon it.
I totally get that you ducked and did not answer some uncomfortable questions that would have, had you chose to answer them honestly, destroyed your entire argument.
Bottom like. Ronald Reagan did not abandon his principles. Nor did every other icon of conservatism. Each of those men achieved greatness for the country. The men who abandoned conservative principles, the Nixons/Fords/GW1/and even !!’s of the party did not.
Levin and Hannity and whatever other ‘conservative’ are likewise abandoning conservatism, taking it off like soxks until after the election. I get that too.
Go ahead and join them. I sleep well at night. And if Obama goes full Marxist and trucks me off to a camp, I’ll sleep well while I live there too. Because I did not leave the REPUBLICAN party. It left me.
Ron was no dummy.
Then have the moral courage to actually vote for Obama, and not just let it happen by acquiescence. I can’t do that.
It may be that we’re already too far gone. I’ll keep stockpiling ammo no matter who is elected, as long as I can.
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