Have you bothered to notice how many people have dropped out of FR? Do you really think they are all trolls, DUmmies,angry Cruzers or plants? I would say they are tired of all the personal attacks and the way the site is becoming a think like me or shut up and hit the road, there is a word for a world like that and it really isn't compatible with free. I have great respect for JR and what he has built here, but it seems to morphing into something different this election.
At this time last year I was not yet a Trump supporter. That would not happen until ~mid-July. However, I posted a smattering of mildly positive comments re Trump prior to becoming an actual supporter.
Let me tell you, I was savagely attacked. It had to be seen to be believed. Cruz’ supporters said, “This is war,”—and they meant it.
That was nothing, however, to what happened after I actually started backing Trump. The things that were said about me—and about Trump—went so far beyond disgusting, it’s indescribable.
This went on and on and on and on and on. Month after month of blistering, withering, vicious attacks and smears. The pure, raw, naked hatred of Trump and his supporters by Cruz’ supporters truly reached pathological proportions.
Somehow, despite the brutal and never-ending vitriol hurled against him, Trump clinched the nomination. Looking back, it seems like a miracle. I’ve never witnessed such unhinged aggression; it’s amazing anyone could even survive it, much less prevail.
At that time we were asked to stop insulting and attempting to undermine the nominee, and to coalesce behind him in an effort to stop Hillary. It seemed a reasonable request under the circumstances.
However, Cruz has been in full pout/tantrum mode ever since he lost. He refuses to join the effort to defeat Hillary. His supporters—at least some of them—have followed suit. They continue to smear and frag the nominee.
Now does this make sense? Does any sane person believe Trump would be akin to Hillary? He’s published his list of SC picks, for one thing. They’re one-eighty degrees different from the radical leftist moonbats Hillary would pick.
We really do need to unite to keep Mrs. Clinton out of the WH. The survival of the country depends on it. Trump is facing overwhelming opposition; he doesn’t need it on this site too.
You’ve been here less than three years. I’ve been here just about from the beginning. I say this not to brag, but to note that I’ve seen all kinds come and go. I was here when we had the March for Justice against Clinton. When Lucianne, a good FReepr in standing, shit all over the place so she could pull all the members to her site. When “OneWhoKnows” knew. When Ash would post and generate the Ash Alert. When “ClassyGreenEyedBlonde” saw the hosts in the sky, and turned out to be a dude. When “DeepintheHurtgenForest” wasn’t ever. When JimRob didn’t want Dubya to be the candidate because Dubya was rumored to be a coke abuser. When the Great Rudy bans took place.
I’ve seen it ALL, FRiend. Free Republic isn’t going downhill, or losing members—or it ALWAYS has, because the disgruntled have always made that claim, year after year.
You don’t know this because you simply haven’t been here long enough. OR have you?
Have you ever been banned before?
Do you know what a retread is?
Are you one?