[ScaniaBoy]

The important question is not if the europhiles will be booted from FreeRepublic, but if someone can boot them from every position of power in Europe. Democracy and freedom is slowly being lost in Europe - and this only some 15 years after the eastern half of the continent was freed from half a century of subjugation.

When will they ever learn?

[vimto]

As a Brit I would say that anti European views are held across the political spectrum. The most liberal people I know object to the EU.

Some otherwise solid conservatives support it. In my view they are seriously mistaken.

But it is not a litmus test of conservatism still less anti-Americanism. The EU project means different things to different people and has to understood within their overall political thinking.

I want out of the EU. But I would have thought FR is big enough and ugly enough to allow dissenters on this - providing they retain a general conservative, pro-american stance. They may be wrong on this point but they are not enemies.