I totally agree with you. I posted a while back that I was going to stay away until after the 2012 presidential election, but now after reading yesterday’s comments I know longer want to be associated with the FreeRepublic. Sady, the FR has strayed over into the radicial right, not the good radical mind you, but the unibomber lunatic fringe radical kind. After reading all of the posts that Obama faked this whole thing I realized I would be embarrased, no ashamed to tell my friends about the FR, or recommend it to others.
I have been a member since Dec 29, 1998 but can no longer call this my home. This is not an opus, I just simply find this place out of control (and that’s saying alot considering my views).
Later and best of luck to everyone ...
I respectfully think you are wrong. Birthers are not anything like the unibomber. Obama is full of lies so that we can’t tell what’s real any more, and the media supports him fully without question. It’s a hard world for truth-seeking conservatives who revere our government style as written in the Constitution, and see this document being ignored.
It’s a free forum so you will get all kinds- and you wont like them all.
Forgive people their distrust of this admin, and their focusing on points you consider foolish. Stick around — or come back. Freedom of speech doesn’t only include wise speech.
I’ve only been here since 2005, but I can see what Scythian, Huck and other “old timers” are talking about.
They must feel like a lot of conservatives feel about the Republican Party. They didn’t leave the Party. The Party left them.
And just as some of FR’s veterans who have been around for 10 years and longer, I too feel there has been a change in the heart and soul of FR.
For one, there are tens of thousands more FReepers than ever before. Too hard to keep up with.
But more than anything - this is a political site. And thanks to the politics of Obama, the Democrats and a whole lot of Republicans, we FReepers are left with bitterness over our political, moral and economic cultures. And it is reflected in our threads and in our replies.
See my tagline. I just added it yesterday. It stands as a testimony to what Obama has brought us to. We can’t even celebrate a victory over bin Laden’s death due to the chicanery of Obama’s twisted political grandstanding.
How sad.
So. You miss the Free Republic of ten years ago? Great. So do I. (And I wasn’t even here 10 years ago).
But there’s no use crying about that now. As I told you Scythian on your semi-opus thread; 1) you will be back before the 2012 elections (see, I was right), and 2) You get too agitated about __________ (fill in the bank) threads? Fine. Stay off them. Focus on threads that are good for you.
I’ve been called an “Obot” for daring to point out there is enough evidence to say Obama was born in Hawaii.
When you have that kind of mindset, basically trashing people not for being non-conservative, but for coming to a different factual conclusion, reasonable and rational discussion goes out the window.
The folks who are doubting even the latest birth certificate release are almost a self-parody now. This is not conservative news, its fringe conspiracy bunk. The left just loves to have those guys around as a punching bag.
Good luck.