Posted on 08/05/2007 4:54:00 AM PDT by Tree of Liberty
Freepers are keeping the powder dry...for the moment.
Bush has betrayed and abandoned the base, and the feeling is mutual.
Fred Thompson is most likely to catch fire, and Freepers will be the kindling to light the torch of freedom.
Holding a YearlyKos is easy when most of the Kos Kids don't have real jobs.
“Past performance may not be indicative of future results.” Whatever benefit the RNC has provided previously, its current incarnation is not responsive to the cause of conservatism. By its corporate actions, their goal, at present, is garnering power. Philosophy be damned.
Whether FR is marginalized can be determined by site visits and membership today vs 200-2004. Anyone have that info?
What you said!
Would the RNC lawyers have had a chance in the court during the 2000 elections if it weren’t for the few (relative to what the DNC can bus in) but voriciously dedicated FReepers and like minded protestors who got in the face of the Palm Beach vote “counters.”
And what of the recent immigration bill failure? FR rallied the troops along with talk radio like Mark Levin. The bill died over the consternation of President Bush and RINOs like Trent Lott.
Of course we’re unappreciated by the powers that be. I don’t want FR to be loved by the RNC and RINOs. I want it to be feared!
Having Free Republic on the right is like a humans need for food.
Having DippyK on the left is like a humans need for a toilet (after bad food).
By...?
Elitist republicans and their media lackeys who attack FR, denegrate us and conservatism, downplay the role of many activist FReepers who are out carrying the water for candidates who don't deserve the support, and doing the legwork for many beltway "republican" reporters who look here to find out what the story is before spinning things their way?
Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Patrick Ruffini and others, who continue to attack and bad mouth FR in an effort to placate the left and demonstrate how "fair and balanced" they are?
BS, why does the right have to bend over and genuflect to the left while the major media has to make no such gestures. We get attacked from the left and the right while only feeble attempts are made to shine the light on the roaches like DU and KOS. By attacking us they weaken their attack on the left by making the uninformed masses think "well that's just something that happens in politics, see they do it too". Neglecting the fact checking and truth that supports most every post and point that appears here.
Marginalized? Whatever.
The great crime that the Free Republic has committed, is that it has demonstrated and reminded the Republican Party of what it has lost, namely a-———— BACKBONE!
We’re simply in the middle of a natural cycle. Groups tend to unite when they’re in the minority, and fracture when in the majority. At some point the Dems will own the White House, and everything will come full circle.
Rudy is not my candidate, but this line is hitting a nerve because it's true in spirit, if not in fact. (I have spoken kindly of Giuliani in some ways, and I'm still here.) But the writer is trying too hard to fit FR into a framework that it isn't meant for--this isn't a Republican site, it's a Conservative site. While I would be interested in a more open and accepting forum, one that has room for equal discussion of where the party is headed and who is "kosher" as a representative of it, FR is what it is. Moaning that it isn't Kos is kinda weird, actually, since Kos is emblematic of the take-no-prisoners approach of the Democrat party, which is liberal through and through. Kos is a Democrat site, AS WELL AS a liberal site--the two are inextricably melded together now. I don't think the Republican party is so overwhelmingly conservative as the dems are so completely liberal.
All yours, use with abandon.
blue=freerepublic.com
maroon=dailykos.com
green=democraticunderground.com
Would you please remind me how I can find out what # I am? I used to know, but it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten.
Courtesy Comment:
AMEN and bares repeating.
We conservatives do not have competent leadership.
Hi, Clara!
You are number 51,722.
Go to your freeper page and click on “In Forum.”
Your number will show in the address bar.
My concern with some of the sites I discussed above is that for ten long years, they havent been giving our people Web experiences that teach them how to be more than simple readers.
Complacency kills.
This forum ain't what it used to be. The IQ level here has dropped precipitiously since I joined. Lots of highly intelligent, articulate, engaging Freepers don't come here much any more. They have moved on. The simple readers don't miss them.
While you're patting your own back with one hand and tapping away at your keyboard to flame me, be thinking of ways to make FR a force multiplier in the War of Ideas.
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