FR has never been a part of the GOPe, and still isn’t.
***It is now. Look at post #300, as yourself why Jim hasn’t responded to it.
To: Jim Robinson from Kazan
We’ll deal with Romney and the RINOS later.
How are we going to do that when the establishment knows, ultimately, even you will vote for whoever they put up?
Jim, by his own account, made a prayerful decision
***He made a sleepless decision. Sleeplessness is not prayer. God doesn’t want us to give up our deeply held principles.
coming apart at the seams with major in-fighting while the real enemy savages our ranks and out flamks us.
***The real enemy is within the gates. It is CINOs. It is the folks you have thrown in with. Those are the folks who have been conducting the in-fighting, “causing FR to come apart at the seams”. I would rather fight someone in front of me than worry about getting stabbed in the back from behind in betrayal. Jim could have implemented our straightforward suggestion for taking care of the in-fighting. It was pretty simple. But instead, he sacrifices his principles upon the altar of republicanism.
I lived in Santa Barbara a few years back. Our conservative congressman did a pretty good job. Along came this republican dude with lots of money, named Huffington. He spent more on this congressional primary race than any other in history. He unseated the congressman. When the time came to vote, I could not pull the lever for this POS and wrote in the former congressman. Straight Republican ticket. Years later, Huffington admitted to being gay, his wife divorced him and started Huffington Post, and do-nothing congressman Huffington basically did more damage to conservatism than any democrat ever could. The seat has been firmly in the hands of a librul ever since. Writing in the conservative republican over that POS was the honorable thing to do.
No matter who wins this next election, conservatism loses. And conservatism took another hit yesterday when one of its primary spokespersons said he would pull the lever for a lying, babykilling, gun-grabbing, rumploving statist. And JimRob is in California, where his vote can count as symbolic.
continue on fighting the fight in the best way you can and impacting the areas where you can make a difference...which is what the rest of us have been trying to do these last several months.
***Horse manure. The principled conservatives on this site have been surrounded by CINOs pushing this POS candidate. Every time I told them that they were sowing discord among conservatives and that they should be out converting 0bots into mittbots because everyone agreed that was the best thing to do... they always came back and continued to stir up the pot here on FR. What they were doing was not conservative and they know it. Now we got you guys saying that you want us to go out and make our impact somewhere else. You pushed the owner of this site so far that he yielded. Well, whooptedoo for you. I hope you’re proud of the fact that you got JimRob to yield his conservative principles. With so many CINOs doing the happy dance on this thread, it is obvious that they ARE proud of it. Excuse me while I go out and vomit.
Why don’t you just GTFO?
I take Jim at his word. He said it was a prayerful decision...and I canot see within his heart...but I know this from long years of exeprience with the man...and despite our differences religiously in interpretations and some points of theology...Jim is a believer and has great faith in our Savior.
If he says he prayerd about it...I believe he did and will not besmirch him or insult him by saying it is because he was sleep deprived, and attempt to negate his simple woitness of faith and the influence it has now had on him in this decision.
It is interesting to me how some of the very people who were calling others for questioning Jim...and some, sadly who insulted him...to task for that when his thinking was the other way, but now that he has posted a thread in essence announcing his decision to change...those same people are doing exaclty what they accused others of.
Prettuy shameless IMHO. You can disagree with the man...but you need not insult him, particularly after all he has done.
I didn’t throw up my hands and give up, believeing all is lost and that the many, many strong patriots and conservatives who are trying to influence the GOP from within were lost when Jim was pushing to vote against Romney and Obama (which would surely insure Obama’s vistory) and I will not do so now.
You are free to view it however you wish and sincerely work hard as you see fit to help restore America...and I applaud you for it.
My own suggestion would be to now, with Jim, continue to do the same and find the areas you do agree on (and there are more of them where we agree I would wager...far more...than where we disagree) and work together to make those things happen.
America at the Crossroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
Well, Jim. How are you going to deal with the CINOs here on Free Republic now that this ridiculous strategy has been repudiated?
To: Jim Robinson from Kazan
We’ll deal with Romney and the RINOS later.
How are we going to do that when the establishment knows, ultimately, even you will vote for whoever they put up?
Jim, by his own account, made a prayerful decision
***He made a sleepless decision. Sleeplessness is not prayer. God doesn’t want us to give up our deeply held principles.
coming apart at the seams with major in-fighting while the real enemy savages our ranks and out flamks us.
***The real enemy is within the gates. It is CINOs. It is the folks you have thrown in with. Those are the folks who have been conducting the in-fighting, “causing FR to come apart at the seams”.