Nope. Not paranoid at all. I was one of those who was banned. Had a handle of 3.5 years. Adios. All for citing the official Republican Party platform. Free Republic helped accelerate me to the conservative side of the tracks back then...
Funny, I actually donated to Fred Thompson’s campaign. Listen to the guy on the radio on Nashville talk radio. But dare anyone say anything nice about Romney in the heat of an election...
Giuliani never even pretended to be conservative. Romney, I thought, made a genuine conversion—one that took the greater part of a decade.
He was by far the most eloquent candidate we had, and also one of the few who could throw barbs realistically back at Obama.
I’m not saying I endorse the guy in 2012, but I think he’d make a good candidate.
Wrong, it was instant. His massive series of epiphanies took place when he started the 2008 race in mid 2005 and were mostly wrapped up in the next 12 to 20 months.