An interesting thought. Is it possible that Free Republic might be used in the fall to campaign for Obama? That would be unreal.
Two years ago I was reading articles by conservatives wondering if President Obama would finish out his full term since he was so incredibly unpopular and the 2010 elections had thrown out many Democrats in Congress, replacing conservative and moderate Democrats with radical conservatives. Now we're looking at the worst possible Republican getting nominated, a man who is politically more liberal than many of those conservative and even moderate Democrats who were defeated in 2010, and we now face the very real risk that Obama will be re-elected.
This didn't happen by accident. Divide-and-conquer works when you don't have enough supporters to win a straight majority. That tactic worked for Romney and it may well work for Obama.
I frankly don't know what I'm going to do if, as now seems all but certain, Romney wins the Republican nomination. I understand the issue of voting one's conscience and I don't know if I can vote for Romney, partly because even if I do vote for him I believe he's going down to a major defeat and partly because even if we wins he's not much better than Obama. I do know that Obama must be very happy with the way the Republican primaries are turning out.
I certainly hope that whatever Freepers do at the presidential level, they turn out and vote for conservative senatorial, congressional, state and local candidates. The presidential race may well be lost. Other races are not.