Not everyone is at the same place in their conservatism, and at their recognition of the GOP-e’s war against conservatism.
Not every freeper is at the same place in their recognition of, and fellowship with, and awareness of, the strength, commitment, and possibilities of this new anti-GOP-e/tea party rebellion.
Some freepers are ordinary republicans that only know Romney of the last five years, and they see him as the usual republican moderate that republicans are always forced to endure, and submit to, those freepers probably don’t understand the depths of our knowledge of Mitt Romney’s life long politics, and the hidden passion of his anti-conservatism, and they are puzzled about this determination not to get behind their party’s nominee, so we naturally hear the common and natural, election year cries of “most important election in history”, “if you don’t vote for Romney, you support Obama”, “Your third party vote is a vote for Obama”, etc.
Some of that has to be expected and endured, and ignored, if it becomes over done, over used, personal, and is creating logjams and hijackings, and too much bloodshed on threads, then a little slap down and a reminder of what freerepublic is, seems called for occasionally.
The last 3 months of an election year when freerepublic is against the GOP nominee, is going to be interesting and challenging.
I don’t know how JR can handle all the stuff he does, and has, for so many years.
“Some of that has to be expected and endured, and ignored, if it becomes over done, over used, personal, and is creating logjams and hijackings, and too much bloodshed on threads, then a little slap down and a reminder of what freerepublic is, seems called for occasionally.”
You are right of course. I used to be of the mindset that GOP = Conservative and voted accordingly...and would have thought not voting for the GOP nominee was being a traitor. Of course, with my increasing age and experience I realize that is a naive view...but not something you can tell someone younger...or for that matter desparate to get rid of the current Dem POTUS.
“The last 3 months of an election year when freerepublic is against the GOP nominee, is going to be interesting and challenging.”
You know, from the posts I have read (especially in response to Jim’s post like this one) I am convinced that 75% of FR regulars are ABOs, and with the advent of Ryan that number has gone up. Those of us that oppose Romney, out of principle, may have to tone it down just to keep it from destroying the forum. I hate to back down like that, but at the same time I can’t see that I’m getting anyone to think, just pushing them into being more stubborn in their resolve to replace Obama with Romney, no matter how unsuitable Romney is for that purpose. Anyway, I’m probably going to post less often, and on threads where it won’t cause open warfare here on FR. I don’t like rabble rousers and if that all I can accomplish, it isn’t worth the effort. Besides, I know that ultimately America’s problems cannot be solved by political methods....they can only be made worse.