Posted on 10/31/2011 8:11:08 PM PDT by Fred
In an email to POLITICO this afternoon, Robinson admitted that the site routinely blocks Romney supporters from posting -- and offered no apologies for the practice:
Free Republic is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government, pro-constitution, pro-liberty site. Governor Romney is none of the above. His record is that of an abortionist, gay rights pushing, gun grabbing, global warming advocating, big government, mandate loving, constitution trampling, flip-flopping liberal progressive with no core values. That and the fact that he is the chief architect and advocate for ObamaCare disqualifies him for any consideration whatsoever on Free Republic as a potential nominee for the presidency. ...
Liberal progressives and other enemies of the constitution and or of Liberty itself are not welcome here. Accounts registered here by liberal progressives and other assorted trolls, malcontents and disruptors will be removed on sight or at the convenience of the site administrators.
The site came under fire from Ross Abraham, a blogger for Mitt Romney Central, who wrote today that Free Republic is just one of several sites (along with RedState, he says) on the right-wing Internet that are pretty much off limits to Mitt Romney's supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Politico is just figuring this out now?
FreeRepublic has been anti-Romney for literally years.
Bravo FreeRepublic!
RINO’s can get with the program or get the hell out of the Republican party.
Rove is in the tank for Mittens and their desperation stank reeks all over this smear job of Cain.
Libs are evil, but there’s no way they’d smear this early. Clearly a RINO hit job. WE SEE AND KNOW YOU, MYTH WOBBLY!
Feel the fear, Jim. Feel the fear.
Mittens and Rove deserve each other, I guess. It will only be a matter of time till Mitt waffles off of what Rove thinks is his reservation, and then things will get interesting as love turns to hate overnight.
Romney has a blog? whoda known otherwise after this post..
will wonders never cease. ;-)
Romney was tolerated more on FR in 2008. But he hadn’t left as long a skid mark on the underpants of history either.
Rock ON!
If not Mitt, then Perry would be the logical culprit.
There are other options. The Republicans don't own my vote.
Is anyone else besides me sick of this election already? Gads, it’s still a year away!
Nice response. :)
Conservatives who support the constitution really can’t afford to cooperate with any more leftward drift in the one party system the Rinos have devised. We will end up in labor camps and Obamaville stinky hippie tents in Mahattan will become the standard of living in America.
bttt
I support not only Jim’s right, but his decision itself. I happen to agree that Romney is so abominable that conflation of FR with his supporters could badly damage FR’s ability to stay true to what it is: a home for conservatives.
Having said all that, I am somewhat concerned that this might be just a beginning. I have received well-intentioned correspondence from a Freeper advising me that I had best not trumpet my support for Newt too loudly....that Newt’s supporters are very likely the next ones to get the boot. IF true, well, it is Jim’s site. But in spite of all of Newt’s manifest flaws, I think the gap between him and Mitt is rather wide, and I think we will truly be on a slippery slope in that case.
Again, though...no argument. It’s Jim’s site.
Hank
How about the Rudy G purge ? That must have caused you angst as well. 8-]
obladi .. oblada
ROFLMAO!! That moron posted the same sort of drivel at least twice.
Hank
Why should any freeper post anything from that scum. If freepers click in, it just makes his blog seem more popular that it is...good for his sponsers...Yuk. Should be banned from F R
There are a few people that like to make threats. I tell ‘em I’m not changing my beliefs and I’m not going away just because they ping the Powers That Be.
This, because I defended Davy Crockett and told the story of Texas’ independence:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2800157/posts?page=166#166
Chocolate milk all over my damn keyboard. You suck.
Don’t sit it out, just don’t vote for president, vote down ballot for conservatives for house and senate...thats what I will do...McCain was the last time I hold my nose and vote for idiots..
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