Posted on 05/03/2009 12:32:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I'm going to try one more time to explain what FR is all about.
Free Republic is a conservative site. That does not necessarily mean it is a Republican site. In fact there may be many Republicans we don't support and some Republican issues we cannot agree with.
I'll throw in Arlen Specter as a prime example of a Republican we cannot support. Should be obvious to all why not. Should also be just as obvious to all that we cannot support Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, John McCain and his lap dog Lindsay Graham, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, et al.
Some of the issues we cannot support as conservatives even though sometimes initiated by so-called Republicans include TARP, or any kind of government bailout of private enterprise, federal intrusion into free markets, federalized education systems, government provided or controlled health care systems, abortion, gay marriage, amnesty, global warming, gun control, etc.
I guess there is more than one definition of conservatism floating around out there, and this won't be text book, but the one we use involves defending, preserving and protecting our constitution, our unalienable rights, our traditional family values, our American heritage, our nation, our borders and our sovereignty.
We aggressively defend our rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness!
We aggressively defend our rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to keep and bear arms, right to due process, right to equality under the law, right to be governed under the rule of law, right to constitutionally limited government, right to corruption free government, right to self-government and our private property rights, etc.
We also aggressively defend our right to state and local government for all issues not expressly delegated to the central government by the constitution.
We aggressively defend our rights to free markets and our rights to live our lives free of government intrusion, interference, coercion, force, or abuse of any kind.
We aggressively defend our rights to national sovereignty, state sovereignty and individual sovereignty!
And this definition also includes aggressively fighting against all enemies foreign and domestic who may try to deprive us of our rights or sovereignty. This would obviously include all foreign enemies, but also we defend against RINOS, Democrats, liberals, socialists, Marxists, communists, militant feminists or homosexualists, radical environmentalists, etc, etc, etc.
And we expect our elected representatives to also aggressively defend our rights and fight against all enemies foreign and domestic. We do not elect people and send them to DC or our state capitals, etc, to reach across the aisles or to be bipartisan or to negotiate or compromise away our rights. If you're not going to aggressively fight for us, and for our rights, STAY OUT!!
We bow to no king but God!
Our God-given unalienable rights are NOT negotiable!
Do NOT Tread on US!
Thank you very much!
You see how kind we are at FR? ... Jim even allows folks like you to post here.
“It means don’t continue to promote RINO’s for POTUS on this site. It’s the way it’s always been.”
Well, what if it’s a choice between a RINO and Obama? Or what if a RINO can beat Obama, but the pure Conservative cannot? Or what if a candidate has one or two issues where he is not completely Conservative, but clicks on all the other cylinders?
So, you would be content to elect a socialist like Myth because of his speaking abilities?
No - strawman argument. Try again.
Thank you, Jim. This is a great post.
...I’ve been busy today, but I’d rather post now than never.
How PRECISELY is bringing up the fact that Myth is a socialist who is able to speak well a strawman argument?
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I will assume that you made an honest mistake (and I applaud you service to the party) but I would like to suggest that you determine the orgin of something you deem offensive before you report it. Here is the orginal post.
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Unlike Romney’s “National Council for a New America,” Free Republic is a conservative site!
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Beagle8U to Peter Horry
Peter Horry
“I am a realist when it deals with the past election (after all, that was the only options available) and I prefer to be a visionary when considering the future (if we are not things will never improve)”
Beagle8U
Well, great! Then you can’t envision Mutt Romney as a steaming pile of $hit?
“From this post and others you have posted you sound very confused”
“Perhaps you can explain why you think FR should provide a forum for the spread of liberalism”
If you can construe anything I have posted as a desire to use this forum for the spread of liberalism or indeed that I support liberalism then I would suggest that I am not the one confused. Perhaps you should read my posts a little more carefully.
“From this post and others you have posted you sound very confused”
“Perhaps you can explain why you think FR should provide a forum for the spread of liberalism”
If you can construe anything I have posted as a desire to use this forum for the spread of liberalism or indeed that I support liberalism then I would suggest that I am not the one confused. Perhaps you should read my posts a little more carefully.
I see some people here are piling up on you...callin’ you names and whatnot. Seems to be a popular sport here. When I read your comment, it sounded to me like you’re frustrated with the way things are in the good ole, USA, and that the lib/socialist/marxist/commy agendas are winning. You’d be right. Forums such as this one may very well become irrelevent if we (conservatives and Republicans in general) can’t do something right and soon.
I read some of your last posts and none of them gave me the impression that you are anything but another frustrated conservative with a son who is serving in the Marines.
Hopefully you won’t toss in the towel. Our children and grandchildren need us to stand up, not give up.
Caribou
I do, but I do not go after people who are already Christians.
And the missionaries I support tell others who have never heard of Jesus the good news of salvation by grace through faith.
The LDS message is not Evangelism, it is a membership drive in search of tithing.
YOU have suggested that FReepers refrain from exposing Myth Romney's liberalism. The fight for conservatism MUST include the exposition of liberalism, to do otherwise is to lend support to liberalism.
Ancient retreads.
Let me suggest two books for you: The Holy Bible esp the New Testament and the US Constitution and other founding documents. Throw in some Solzhenitsyn while you are at your assignment.
That is all you need. Dump Rand and objectivism.
“Witness” by Whittaker Chambers is also an excellent book, Reagan said it was one of main reasons he became a conservative.
Mitt is so gay
“YOU have suggested that FReepers refrain from exposing Myth Romney’s liberalism. The fight for conservatism MUST include the exposition of liberalism, to do otherwise is to lend support to liberalism.”
No! I suggested that you might stop behaving like a pack of hyenas ripping at flesh. Your posts are tiring, full of insult, and serve little purpose in exposing liberalism or defeating it. Hope this makes my position a little more clear. I am tired of hearing about the past candidates I have posted some of my choices for the future, I can post them again if necessary.
If YOU don’t like seeing liberal RINOs exposed then perhaps YOU should stay off of a thread dedicated to exposing one of the biggest liberal RINOs there is. And if YOU think Myth Romney is a “past candidate” then you are being very naive.
My friends dad was also a Doc, a now 80 yr old GP. He has traded his services for chickens! He delivered a baby for a canoe! He never took money from people who couldn’t pay.
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Those are the kind of doctors I like.
I agree that the insurance companies are a big part of the problem, and the government welfare system and those who abuse it. I have known some good doctors in my life. I have also known a lot of bad doctors who gouged people.
Like any profession you have the good and the bad.
You aren’t fighting the good fight anymore, Jim. You are irrelevant. Free Republic’s glory days are over. And, they are never coming back.
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Did you forget something? Like the /sarcasm tag?
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