Bob J is no longer a FReeper in good standing. He now despises FR and all we stand for. His hatred for Sarah Palin matches that of any leftist Obama worshiper. He thinks the Tea Party is a waste of time. He thinks FR is populated by mostly right-wing nut jobs and bible thumpers. He’s now openly mocking God-fearing, Liberty-loving patriots on FR. FR has become a major embarrassment to our good friend Bob. He’s devolving into an anti-freeper. I’ve asked him to leave but he insists on hanging around to poke sticks at us right-wing nuts whistling past the graveyard. Very sad.
It’s amazing how many people confuse Free Republic with the RNC.
The RNC has their own website where you can gripe about the “image problems” the GOP has whenever Sarah Palin speaks or the Tea Partiers gather. I don’t think most Freepers see Sarah and the Tea Partiers as the problem.
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“Bob J is no longer a FReeper in good standing.”
That would depend entirely on one’s definition of “FReeper” and “good standing”. If being both means hoisting a politician on a pedestal out of reach of the hearth fire at their feet, then I fit the bill. But I always believed being a FReeper meant someone dedicated to the conservative principles of small government, low taxes and personal freedom and not beholden to the politics of personality.
This may come as a surprise but I've always felt FR was bigger than the forum, bigger than the DCC, bigger than the FRN, bigger than me and even bigger than you. So I apologize for not having the same definitions but to me that is one of those “let's agree to disagree” moments.
“He now despises FR and all we stand for.”
What do you stand for now Jim? I always thought I knew but now I'm not so sure. A couple examples are McCain and Perry. In another life you would have been the first to criticize any politicians endorsement of these 2 RINO’s but now you are silent because it's Saint Sarah. To me that smells like there is something rotten in Denmark. But that's just me.
“His hatred for Sarah Palin matches that of any leftist Obama worshiper.”
I don't hate Sarah, I don't think she is ready for the Oval Office and have some reservations about her history. I also don't like her most ardent supporters on FR spinning, lying, fabricating and giving her credit for things she didn't do or the efforts of others.
And I'll tell you one thing that offends me most of all and that's comparing her to people like Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher. To me it's an insult to not only who they were but their accomplishments and places in history. If someone wants to do this wait until Palin is in the grave and compare their victories and effect on the world. Until then to me it is a desperate attempt to promote Palin way beyond her karma.
“He thinks the Tea Party is a waste of time.”
This is baloney and I've expounded on this on other threads. To me the TP is culmination in everything we tried to accomplish with the FRN. And I'll go one step further. I don't think the TP’s might ever have evolved as they did if it wasn't for the groundwork the FRN laid with events like our 250 nationwide protests in 2000 and again in 2003. I always say I love Rush because he made it okay to a conservative, well, in the same way the FRN made it okay to be a conservative activist. That you forget this history so quickly is, well the best way to put it is “disheartening”.
“He thinks FR is populated by mostly right-wing nut jobs and bible thumpers.”
No, they're just the squeakiest wheel right now.
“He’s now openly mocking God-fearing, Liberty-loving patriots on FR.”
If that means I am opposed to hoisting an obviously flawed politician to a level unbefitting their past accomplishments or future potential, so be it.
“FR has become a major embarrassment to our good friend Bob.”
Only in the context of how we were received and thought of in the ‘98-'02 period. But you're the captain at the helm so whatever has happened in the last 9 years has to be laid at your doorstep.
“He’s devolving into an anti-freeper.”
I spent several years going to these AF websites defending you, FR and your actions and intentions, being pilloried and attacked right alongside you. That you make this statement at this point shows you never knew anything about me. Sometimes Jim I think you don't really deserve the friends you have, you toss them over the side so quickly.
“I’ve asked him to leave but he insists on hanging around to poke sticks at us right-wing nuts whistling past the graveyard.”
I've gone up against the best from Ash to mojo to the AF websites who tried to destroy my personal life, my business
and drive me from conservatism activism. Again Jim, if you think what you and others have subjected to on these Palin threads is intense much less going to drive me off, well, this is is kids play.
Jim, you got the ban button, do me in if you feel this way. But keep this in mind. Even the best constructed tunnels need a canary in the coal mine and right now for FR I am that canary.
BTW Jim, and this is important and I want you to think about it.
Hundreds of people spent years attacking me, harassing me going after my personal and public life, in an effort to drive me out of conservative activism. But there is only one person who was responsible for that.
You. I placed all my hopes, dreams and efforts into you and FR and when you failed me there was nothing left.
I learned something from that, never ever hoist anyone, private individual, VIP or politician onto a pedestal so high that when they comecrashing down, as they inevitably will, they take everyone and everything with them.
Just as Palin and maybe even the TP’s may do for you.
My suggestion is to always have a back up plan.
Jim, none of that is true.