To continue all these fake outcries and sham moans of distress, and pretending that Mitt-bots with their endless stream of Mitt-bytes is appropriate to post to FREE REPUBLIC is simply RUDE.
Co-signed, +1,000,000.
Posted on 12/01/2009 8:38:13 AM PST by Clique
Let me be clear: I don't like Romney. I wouldn't vote for Romney. I hope he never runs for President, and if he tries, I hope he never gets the nomination. In other words -- I don't like Romney!
However, -- I am tired of having to scroll past an anti-Romney ad as the #1 entry on every article lately.
Why does every post start with an anti-Romney ad? As far as I know, he isn't even running for anything right now.
In fact, why should every article begin with an anti-Anyone ad?
I've always considered most Freepers to be very objective and fair-minded.
Has FreeRepublic turned into a one-trick pony? (DestroyRomneyDestroyRomneyDestroyRomney...etc.)
It has become quite tiresome. Could someone please tell me why FreeRepublic is doing this?
Jim Robinson, are you aware that this is happening?
Thank you.
:’)
7 wrongs make a right in your Absurdistan?
Sure...he's still got lots of charisma and he knows when to cut bait and when to fish....knows when to get out of a campaign adn STFU so the obvious nominee can go after liberal Dems unhindered by infighting......unfortunately, McCain was too much of a wussy to actually go after Obama. Did pretty well in the business world too.
I'm with you on that sentiment. Of all the things to find to complain about. That's why they installed the scroll wheel on the mouse.
Romney is a MORON. There, fixed that.
OBTW. JimRob, you have hit a home run with your Romney campaign, keep up the good work. Conservatives must not ever make the mistake and believe that Romney is not a died in the wool liberal Republican. He is! As bad if not worse than McCaniac!
Looks like the “campaign” is over this morning.
"THAT would be a REAL problem. ;-)" <<<<<
I will not be at all surprised when/if Governor Sarah Palin endorses John McCain in his senatorial race.
Why?
Because Governor Palin strikes me as an honorable person who is loyal.
Although some of us at FR knew who she was before 2008, it is John McCain who brought her to the national stage.
It's not misplaced loyalty to pay due respect to the person who is responsible for launching you into international recognitiion.
Afterall, Goveror Sarah Palin is an ADULT.
LOL
And besides, it will make that miserable Little Katie Couric absolutely *sputter* when she has to report it.
LOL
That will be a fine day.
Thanks for the links.
Regardless of my opinion of Romney, I am so very tired of those ads at the top of so many threads. It has gone WAY overboard.
To continue all these fake outcries and sham moans of distress, and pretending that Mitt-bots with their endless stream of Mitt-bytes is appropriate to post to FREE REPUBLIC is simply RUDE.
Co-signed, +1,000,000.
I'm sorry that I neglected to post the actual links, but gave instructions, instead, how & where to find Jim Robinson's postings.
Here is a set of actual LINKS, below:
Articles Posted by Jim Robinson http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:jimrobinson/index?tab=articles
Articles Posted by Jim Rob
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:jimrob/index?tab=articles
posts-by:jimrobinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:jimrobinson/index?tab=comments
posts-by:jimrob
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:jimrob/index?tab=comments
Well done. Thanks, hennie pennie!
Huh?
The owner of the website wants to make a point after his forums have been run amok for YEARS by mittites, mittbots, mittwhits and mittfits --- and you are complaining about scrolling down to the comments?
WOW
This website was founded by Jim Robinson and it is owned & operated by Jim Robinson, and whatever HE chooses to broadcast is his right and responsibility, and it is NOT the decision of a buncha mittwhits, mittites, mittbotts and/or any others who happen to unfortunately hold mittens fetishes.
Do you ever read Jim Robinson's articles and his many postings to these forums?
If not, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the person who OWNS this website - I've posted 4 links above, a couple posts up from here, you can locate all postings and articles by JimRob/JimRobinson.
Still waiting........................................
This website was founded by Jim Robinson and it is owned & operated by Jim Robinson, and whatever HE chooses to broadcast is his right and responsibility, and it is NOT the decision of a buncha mittwhits, mittites, mittbotts and/or any others who happen to unfortunately hold mittens fetishes
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Hennie pennie,
That is the same as saying: if I don’t like what a radio/TV/newspaper is publishing, I have no right to question them ... because, after all, I don’t own them either.
If you don’t like what ABC/NBC/etc. says about Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, or whomever... you have no right to question them ....because you don’t own them.
Is *that* the kind of “free republic” you want to live in, Hennie Pennie?
How is that “free”?
FreeRepublic, or any website open to the public, must expect the public to occasionally question why it does something.
It wouldn’t matter if those ads were about Romney, Palin, Mickey Mouse, or Charlie Chaplin .
Their constant, uncreative, unvarying, repetition amounts to the same thing: Spam.
Spam, spam, spam ...(cue Monty Python music).
And nobody likes Spam.
Mr. Robinson has the right to fill his website with spam if he chooses.
And I have the right ask why.
I appreciate that you are loyal to Jim Robinson. Fine.
But I resent being called (by someone who knows absolutely *nothing* about me) names like - “mittwhits, mittites, mittbotts ...mittens fetishes.”
I made it very clear in the first line of my question that I am not, nor have I ever been, a support of M. Romney. I greatly resent your repeated accusations that I am.
Your message demonstrates a good deal more emotion than clear thinking.
I resent being scolded by you and people like you, with the same mindless message:
“Worship Jim Robinson or get lost!”
... simply because I asked a courteous question about FR practices.
Jim Robinson does not need a Robert Gibbs-type press secretary jumping down the throat of anyone who dares ask a question or fails to show a proper humility and abject servility.
In other words, you should cease to attack and vilify those of us who are tired of the same ol’ same ol’ ads, thread after thread after thread.
Or perhaps you’d rather select a more appropriate screen name. How about “Junkyard Bulldog.”
:)
You're pretty mouthy for a n00b.
:)
Some of us knew who this conservative firebrand was before 2008.
The Most Popular Governor
Alaska’s Sarah Palin is the GOP’s newest star.
by Fred Barnes
07/16/2007, Volume 012, Issue 41
Juneau
The wipeout in the 2006 election left Republicans in such a state of dejection that they’ve overlooked the one shining victory in which a Republican star was born. The triumph came in Alaska where Sarah Palin, a politician of eye-popping integrity, was elected governor. She is now the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state.
Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle—especially to transparency and accountability in government—can produce political success. And by the way, Palin is a conservative who only last month vetoed 13 percent of the state’s proposed budget for capital projects. The cuts, the Anchorage Daily News said, “may be the biggest single-year line-item veto total in state history.”
As recently as last year, Palin (pronounced pale-in) was a political outcast. She resigned in January 2004 as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after complaining to the office of Governor Frank Murkowski and to state Attorney General Gregg Renkes about ethical violations by another commissioner, Randy Ruedrich, who was also Republican state chairman.
State law barred Palin from speaking out publicly about ethical violations and corruption. But she was vindicated later in 2004 when Ruedrich, who’d been reconfirmed as state chairman, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine for breaking state ethics laws. She became a hero in the eyes of the public and the press, and the bane of Republican leaders.
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In 2006, she didn’t hesitate. She ran against Gov. Murkowski, who was seeking a second term despite sagging poll ratings, in the Republican primary. In a three-way race, Palin captured 51 percent and won in a landslide. She defeated former Democratic governor Tony Knowles in the general election, 49 percent to 41 percent. She was one of the few Republicans anywhere in the country to perform above expectations in 2006, an overwhelmingly Democratic year. Palin is unabashedly pro life.
With her emphasis on ethics and openness in government, “it turned out Palin caught the temper of the times perfectly,” wrote Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News. She was also lucky. News broke of an FBI investigation of corruption by legislators between the primary and general elections. So far, three legislators have been indicted.
In the roughly three years since she quit as the state’s chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has crushed the Republican hierarchy (virtually all male) and nearly every other foe or critic. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the “body count” of Palin’s rivals. “The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah,” says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes Ruedrich, Renkes, Murkowski, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the three big oil companies in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called “Voice of the Times,” which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/013/851orcjq.asp?pg=1
Hi ansell12 - yes, she was mentioned quite frequently on FR as a great conservative with a promising future, so it was very perplexing that with the exception of Glenn Beck, that very few commentators in the MSM seemed to have a clue as to who Governor Palin was.
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