[Amerigomag]

But, but, but ...

A great many Freepers keep voting for these clowns because the alternative is: (choose one) unthinkable, dastardly, communist, Democrat, domestic, unpatriotic.

I'm really beginning to wonder how the word Republican got associated with FreeRepublic in the first place since the Republican Party has become anything but republican.

[B4Ranch]

The Republican Party has left us old lifetime Republicans for the new crop of socialist-neocon Pubs. That's fine if that's the way they want to do it. No more contributions locally or nationally from this old man. Them bucks are all going to go to Constitution Party candidates from now on.

[SierraWasp]

I think it was because the owner/operator was originally trying to hang on to being a Democrat almost as doggedly as Zell Miller, but at least saw the hopelessness in trying to reconcile a non-partisan conservative website with such a hopelessly confusing partisan label as "Democrat!"

That Party left him, just as it did Reagan, Miller, Nunn, Jackson (Scoop) and many others! Now he freely encourages Republican partisans to mingle with non-partisan and Republican conservatives on his conservative website.

Of course, even though a high percentage of Republicans consider themselves "conservatives," a surprisingly large percentage are embarrassed by conservatives. They don't want to leave the Republican Party although they're uncomfortable with it's largely conservative tilt, so their solution to that is to dominate the Party, the way that conservatives have done for the past decade.

At least that's the way I see it, although I'm sure we'll always find those that disagree with this conservative on this avowed "conservative" website!!! Right???