The founder of Free Republic does not support Romney and he has made that clear. Maybe you should find another forum. Check out the DU.
Yeah. But the founder does not engage in the kind of vileness that shows up on every Romney thread. Political disagreement is one thing. The kind of stuff posted by the “usual suspects,” and the personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with them are quite another.
I remember distinctly the surprise and dismay expressed by the National Review editors and other prominent conservatives when this anti-Romney ugliness bubbled up from the depths.
To the extent the malice — not disagreement, but malice — shown against Romney defines conservatives, it give the Left an excuse to define us all as knuckle-dragging bigots.
To the extent the malice shown against Romney defines conservatives, we probably deserve to lose, and we probably will continue to lose.