Free Republic and its members have been instrumental in making sure our rights were not trampled and justice prevailed.
Examples of this have been:
1. The exposure of Al Gore's participation in the Clinton fund raising scandals.
2. The unprecedented, and often overlooked, "ex-communication" of Joe Lieberman by the Orthodox Jewish Rabbis who comprise a judgmental body known as the Bet Din, for using his claimed orthodoxy to promote the Gore pro-abortion policies as Gore's VP running mate, which has not been lifted to this day.
3. The design and release of the "Sore Loserman" posters and bumperstickers which caught the attention of all of America and were so successful that they might well have changed the course of history.
4. The protests against the Florida recount, a blatant attempt by Democrats to steal the 2000 election and reverse George W. Bush's victory. We organized successful counter-protests in opposition to the organized DNC protests and demonstrations by their union sympathizers.
WE were the ones who stormed the locked room where democrat operatives were trying to conduct their recount in secret and exposed their disregard for the rule of law. That action stopped the illegal count and changed their planned outcome.
5. The exposure of John Kerry's true background as a Vietnam "war hero" as well as his extensive connections to our Communist enemies in North Vietnam. The book, "Unfit for Command," was coauthored by one of our members.
6. The FIRST exposure of the Dan Rather/CBS Bush National Guard documents as forgeries, along with Powerline blog which eventually led to the firings of those involved.
These are mere highlights, but by no means all we have accomplished with our dedicated researchers and activist chapters throughout the country.
Most if us were, at one time, registered Republicans. We supported you, RNC, through thick and through thin with our dollars, our volunteers, our dedication to OUR core principles which you espoused.
We watched, as over the years, you turned away from those principles and led our party to defeat after defeat by becoming a duplicate version of the Democratic party, rejecting one after another, the planks in your platform in favor of your "big tent" approach, putting party over principle, party over the morals and the family values you claim to represent, but do NOT.
After fighting every single day everywhere in the country to elect a Republican Majority to the Senate, we were shocked to our core when RINOs went behind closed doors and agreed to "Power Sharing" which we considered a bargain with the devil. WE were right.
After the hard fought 2000 election, we watched in utter dismay as OUR president partnered with Ted Kennedy to extend government control into our families and over our childrens' lives with the "No Child Left Behind" bill.
As if that was not enough, YOUR candidate for the past election, John McCain, teamed up with one of the most liberal Senators in history to give us McCain/Feingold, which Bush promised to veto, but didn't.
After 9/11, we were stunned yet again when Republicans allowed the delay of the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security and allowed the Democrats to politicize it by making it just another boondoggle and a home away from home for their constituent semi-literate and illiterate union workers.
To add insult to injury, the Republicans used it as a repository for deficient small r politicians as political favors. The highest offices were replete with hacks who paid more attention to their interior decorators than to the security of our country.
Since then, it has evolved into simply another dysfunctional, out of control bureaucracy, which has now actually put into writing that CONSERVATIVES in this, our own country, were somehow subversives and potential terrorists.
We have seen RINOs like Jim Jeffords hand over our hardwon majority to the democrats in the Senate. We watched Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins "cross the aisle" to defeat Conservatives and give victories to liberal bills we have abhorred.
We watched the insanity of trying to provide amnesty for illegal aliens disguised as "Comprehensive Immigration Reform."
We watched Republicans spending us into oblivion, but NOTHING on earth prepared us for what Bush did upon leaving office with the help of RINOs in our Congress, and John McCain, our "nominee," the TARP bill handing Obama total countrol over our Treasury.
It was the final blow and a smack in the face to anyone and everyone who supported Small r republicans disguised as Conservatives and which put us on this path to our own destruction, the wholesale dismantling of our beloved Constitution, and the end of Freedom and Free Market Capitalism as we have known it.
We watched as you withheld OUR contributions from Conservative candidates from local offices to federal offices in favor of liberals with small rs who betrayed us once they were elected.
You held your noses when McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, but you must also note that before her candidacy, the RNC AND John McCain couldn't raise enough money to run a presidential campaign. When Sarah Palin joined the ticket, the Conservative coffers opened wide. NOT for John McCain, but for Sarah Palin, whom you continue to try and diminish.
Some of you might have heard of us. Those who haven't soon will because today, the world as you have known it changes. Today we are delaring our emancipation from party politics as usual. Today is the day that as Conservatives, we declare that in OUR PARTY, we will accept NO MORE RINOs!
Whereas: The RNC and the Republican Party have disregarded Conservative Family Values and Morals to the detriment and exclusion of its Conservative base
. Such as the adaptation of insidious legalese designed to dupe its base into accepting unacceptable moral conduct, including homosexual activity by legitimizing such behaviour as a human right, thereby endangering our children in their schools, us in our workplaces, forcing our Military to accept openly gay homosexuals by aquiescing to the "Don't ask, don't tell" philosophy, and endangering innocent children by allowing them to be legally adopted by homosexual couples which forces them into the gay lifestyle;
. Such as the acceptance into the Party of, and supporting the elections of, pro-abortion advocates knowing full well that abortion murders human babies in the womb;
. Such as accepting and overlooking adultery among its elected officials as an "error in judgement" when it is abundantly clear that if you cannot keep your marriage vows, you cannot be trusted to keep any vows and a prime example of this is none other than Newt Gingrich;
. Such as overlooking, and often engaging in, corrupt practices whether through actions by colluding with, or granting special favors to, corporate lobbiests, wealthy constituents, profiteering in the granting of government contracts to wealthy donors, or simple graft and porkbarrel theft of taxpayer monies;
Whereas: The RNC and the Republican Party have espoused ultra-liberal, even suicidal, policies to the exclusion and detriment of common sense
. Such as continuing to espouse the myth that Islam is a "religion of peace" knowing full well that Islam has declared war, by word and by deed, on the entirety of Human Civilization;
. Such as politicizing our Military by forcing them into politically correct policies that endanger our Troops' lives both at home and on the battlefield;
Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have allowed themselves to fall prey to extreme environmental psuedoscience
. Such as the notion that CO2 is a danger to humanity and the planet;
. Such as the paying lip service and legitimizing the myth of manmade global warming;
. Such as the acceptance of extremist environmental jujitsu that forbids us from utilizing our own natural resources which GOD has blessed us with in abundance, which has caused energy prices to be artificially high, making us beholden to our sworn enemies;
. Such as allowing extreme environmental policies to interfere with how we live on, and use, our own private property thereby running farms out of business, forcing businesses like logging and coal mining to shut down causing the wholesale destruction of entire communities and sending great swaths of middle class citizens into poverty, and even regulating how much water we can use in our own toilets;
. Such as mandating unnaturally high CAFE standards and over-regulation of our automobile industry forcing them to make vehicles the public did/does not want, and would not buy, ending decades of America's unparalleled world leadership in innovation, class, and style, eventually destroying the entire American automobile industry.
. Such as over-regulating and over-taxing American manufacturing sending millions of jobs out of our own country.
Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have aquiesced to the distortion of the First Amendment of our Constitution by participating in removal of GOD from the public square instead of defending our Constitutional RIGHT to Freedom of Religion, not freedom FROM religion;
. Such as taking Christ out of Christmas;
. Such as disallowing our right to openly wear symbols of Christianity or Symbols of Judaism in our workplaces while allowing those who practice Islam to not only wear the symbols of their ungodly religion, but allow them special rights for footwashings in special areas, in special basins built at taxpayer expense in our public colleges, forcing employers to grant them special breaktimes in the workplace to conduct their prayers while disallowing our right to pray in any venue because it might cause offense to anyone who doesn't believe as we do;
. Such as disallowing the Holy Bible to be read or taught or even spoken of in government schools, while forcing our children to be indoctrinated into Islam under the guise of "diversity;"
Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have helped to incrementally deprive us of our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms by advocating for one regulation after another designed to make legal firearms ownership as difficult as humanly possible and making criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens;
Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have colluded with liberals in mandating that instead of English being the official language of the United States, our children are forced to learn Spanish in government schools, and employers are forced to hire non-English speaking aliens or be charged with civil right violations;
Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have committed these and many other offenses to society at large and Conservatives in particular
Whereas: NO Republican can be elected without wholehearted support of the Conservative Base
WE, the Members of Free Republic,in keeping with the concept under which Free Republic was born, along with the Founder of this Conservative Forum, Jim Robinson, and more generally, the majority of Conservatives of the United States of America, do hereby make and agree to this Delaration of Independence from party politics as usual.
We affirm our independence by delivering our support to only those individuals within the Republican Party, who aspire and inspire our core Conservative beliefs and Values.
If the Republican Party does not field, or will not recruit Conservative candidates, and support them in every way possible, count us out.
We will no longer trust you to pick and choose our candidates with impunity while you wilfully disregard us even as you take our support for granted.
Those days are over.
Your time has come and gone.
We are Americans who still believe that the Constitution is the set of rules that we live by and die for.
In our in our founder's own words:
We are fed up and mad as hell! We grassroots Americans are delivering a message to the ruling class: NO MORE!!
No more big government! No more high taxes! No more government bailouts! No more government takeovers! No government healthcare! No more corruption! No more global baloneyism!!
We're sick and tired of liberals and RINOs running roughshod over our God given Liberty!
We want our country back! We want our freedom back! We want it all back!!
No more socialism!!
Cut the taxes! Cut the spending! Cut the government!
Restore the constitutional limits on government! Restore our freedom!!
And not only no, but HELL NO to liberals and RINOS!!
Free Republic will not support RINOS!!