[AmericanInTokyo]

Without hard core conservatives on FR and elsewhere bitching 24/7 about McCain and radicalizing the cynical base in opposition to him, even with him gaining the nomination, he met his fait d' accompli in the VP selection, and had no choice but to drop those two pro-choice loons, Tom Ridge and Joe Liberalman, and had to chose somebody like Sarah Palin palatable to the huge hard core of whiners and true Conservatives.

Without our bitching and threatening and hair splitting and whining and threatening to take our marbles home here on FR and elsewhere for the last three months, in other words, without articulating the skepticism of the GOP Conservative base (something I engaged and and will continue to engage in) Sarah Palin would be a figment of our imagination today.

McCainiac, Bushbots, Republican-Firsters and reluctant conservatives alike on FR should keep this in mind. If you lose the whiners and threateners like AiT, rabscuttle385 and thousands of others, you lose ALL LEVERAGE AND POWER TO REIGN THIS GUY IN WHOM WE KNOW IS STILL NOT A BEDROCK CONSERVATIVE.

People told us to "get lost" or "go back to D.U. you troll", (some even "f*ck off!" in private Freepmail....but WE knew our value and our role and mission), and nothing stopped us nor will stop us in the future. Therein lies the value of the "bad cop" so to speak. We had a small role, but a role nonetheless. (Thank you, thank you).

[cripplecreek]

There’s nothing more pathetic than getting called a DU troll by people who two weeks ago were holding Hillary campaign signs and willing to rape and pillage if she didn’t get the nomination.

Actually I take that back. The only thing more pathetic are the long term FReepers who cheer on the recent Hillary voters who they’ve never asked what attracted them to Hillary in the first place.