“Then one by one, they turned their guns on and did the same thing to Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, Cain and Santorum driving their support numbers down and Perry, Cain and Bachmann completely out of the race. As each one took their successive turns as our leading non-Romney conservative, they were relentlessly attacked, trashed and driven out.
Looked like we were repeating 2008 and were going to be stuck with a sure loser RINO again and Obama would waltz in for a second destructive term. We’re now running out of qualified conservative candidates and I’ll be damned if I’m going to allow Free Republic to be used to drive out our last remaining best conservative shot of defeating both Romney and Obama!! “
That’s from the boss. Take your Newt/class warfare complaints up with him.
Do you really find it necessary to go running off to Daddy for a pat on the head because someone disagrees with you?
I am well aware of how the owner wants FR to be used and I respect his point-of-view, which we have discussed in some detail in the past. I think he’s well able to address things as he sees fit, and I certainly have no problem supporting him in that.
In the meantime, are you claiming that anything that is non-praise of Gingrich — including analysis that goes to how we might get this man elected and then held accountable once he’s in the Oval Office — is using FR to drive out Newt?
Pretending that if everyone keeps quiet about the challenges ahead in getting Gingrich elected will make those challenges go away is just not true.
Supporting a candidate doesn’t mean pretending he doesn’t present political challenges.
Accepting the reality that a candidate does present political challenges is not “trashing” him.
I’m pretty sure you’d be applying this line of reasoning to the Romney campaign, were he the frontrunner. Difference is, I think ALL the candidates should know that we know their crap stinks and we intend to hold them accountable.