Posted on 08/14/2012 1:53:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Well, folks, it happens every four years or so. The presidential election cycle really brings out the RINOS. I have to state and restate FR's positions more and more frequently, because the true blue RINO types simply cannot stand that a conservative site will not support a gun grabbing, abortionist, homosexualist, big government statist.
Last cycle it was Rudy McRomney. Boy, did we ever catch hell for not supporting the big RINOs of the day. Hundreds of true blue RINO supporters fled grassroots conservative FR in disgust when they couldn't get their way and called us every name in the book on the way out, especially, the Rudy cabal.
Where did it get them? The abortionist/homosexualist Rudy didn't get the nomination. We on FR finally decided to support McCain after he was the last RINO standing and he selected Palin as his running mate, but that will not happen this time. And McCain proved not up to the task anyway. He was far too undependable to make it as a conservative, but he was at least pro-life and pro-family and a war hero and that's why I finally relented and gave my reluctant no other choice endorsement.
But Myth Romney is without a doubt the most leftist, flip-flopping, lying, two-faced politician ever to be nominated by the Republicans. We have the most leftist Democrat ever sitting in the White House which ANY Republican should be able to defeat in a Reaganesque landslide, but in their infinite RINO wisdom, the GOPe pushes the most leftist Republican ever.
Why, oh, why would the GOPe risk it all by pushing for and giving the nomination to a man with Romney's abortionist, homosexualist, gun grabbing, big government statist Keynesian record? Do they have a death wish or are they simply trying to move the goal posts even further to the left? Romney is the grandpappy of ObamaCare for crying out loud. He made ObamaCare possible. ObamaCare gave birth to the grassroots tea party movement. The GOPe has done nothing but torpedo the tea party conservatives when they should have embraced us. Sarah Palin was the best thing to happen for the Republicans party since Reagan and the tea party the best thing in a century. Why would they try to kill us off?
We can take a clue from the Rudy McRomney cabal that left FR last time. They exclaimed on the way out that, "The conservatives have held their boot to the GOP's neck for far too long. Never again will guns, abortion, and the gay agenda be important issues for Republicans."
And now the abortionist/homosexualist/shamnesty Rudy McRomney cabal and the anti Palin RINO crowd have teamed up to come after FR again. They couldn't hack it with their wideawakes wankers for Rudy site or their trueblue RINOs for Romney site, so they are now posting their current anti-FR screeds on facebook and on any blog site they possibly can.
Hell hath no fury like a RINO scorned.
One of the RINO's we're talking about is our old friend Luis Gonzalez. He was a big Rudy pusher and would relentlessly trash any conservative who objected. We eventually had to invite him to leave FR and go with the wankers for Rudy. But it turns out he had a sleeper account on FR called "Lancelot Jones."
He recently registered a mole account on FR called "The Duke of Pearls" where he attempted to post the anti-FR screed pasted below. I pulled it and banned his account(s), but it is the one he's now plastering all over the net aided and abetted by his pal and anti-Palin RINO troll, EveningStar.
By the way, it's telling that Gonzalez in his Lancelot Jones mole persona posted the following quips to FR just a couple of days ago:
"If you can't rely on something at the precise moment that you need it the most, because that thing that you need to rely on is only reliable when the circumstances suit it, then get rid of it."
"If the GOP realizes that "purists" will only supprt the GOP when the Party's candidates meet their test, then it may be best to not count on them at all."
"The lesson that the GOP will probably learn from your scenario, is that it needs to jettison purists once and for all."
So, I guess my pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-small government, pro-gun, pro-liberty constitutional stance makes me a "purist" who must be hated and persecuted and run off the net even though my positions on these causes are exactly the same as the official Republican party platform. Very strange.
Here's Gonzalez' latest anti-FR screed that he's trying to make go viral:
Once, a long time ago, if you were an individual seeking reasonable and intelligent political discourse in the Internet, from a right-wing perspective, there were few places as prominent and respected as Jim Robinson’s freerepublic.com. The site counted among its members such luminaries as Tony Snow, Barbara Olsen, and Andrew Breitbar; even Robert Bork was rumored to post in FR.
The site’s users, known as FReepers, were considerable in number, dedicated, and passionate, and Jim Robinson’s conservative brigades were able to launch either spontaneous roadside rallies, or organized nation-wide protests from Texas, to Florida, to Georgia, to Washington DC itself.
- It was a FReeper that ended Dan Rather’s career.
- It was a FReeper that coined the term Sore/Loserman during the Bush/Gore recount wars.
- It was a FReeper that posted the first known report of trouble with the Columbia, as it disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana on re-entry.
- It was a FReeper that photo-shopped the infamous image of John Kerry standing side-by-side with Jane Fonda in an anti Vietnam war rally.
Those were the Golden Days of Free Republic, but the site shines no longer. Mr. Robinson fails to realize that it was individual members of his forum that brought gravitas to the forum, and not the other way around. To be fair, Robinson created what could very well be the best softweare of its kind, but it was the massive interchange of ideas between members, all driven by the e-wave of the late 20th Century, and the animosity toward the Clinton administration that brought the forum into the spotlight.
Alas, Mr. Robinson convinced himself that the message was the medium, when it was the messengers that raised the medium to glory.
Internet blogs are buzzing with reports of a massive crack up in FR, with anti-Romney sentiment standing toe-to-toe with open anti-Mormon bias, FReepers are abandoning Jim Robinson’s burning ship in droves, populating sites like www.gopbriefingroom.com to discuss the chaotic status of Free Republic.
In facebook, exiled FReepers stand amazed at the realization that Free Republic and Daily KOS, bitter Internet blog political ideology enemies, are actually supporting the same candidate for the Presidency this cycle, as FReepers openly support the idea if an Obama win, as such a victory will “teach the GOP a lesson”.
This post from FReeper “Leep”
"Crash and burn America. Hopefully, we can rebuild in 10 or 20 or 50 years…?" The signs are visible to even the naked eye.
Check this statement by the site’s founder, Jim Robinson, just a few nights ago:
“Lastly, we’re having a bit of changeover on our moderator staff. At least two moderators resigned this afternoon after I flatly refused to rein in a so-called anti-Mormon “bigot” on FR.” In today’s Free Republic, no one will be critical of anti-Mormon statements. Jim Robinson once again:
“This website considers the Mormon religion as false doctrine. Period.” It’s nearly impossible to cross the line on criticism of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism at a site where the proprietor dismisses the entire religion as a “false doctrine”.
Robinson, in his refusal to support the GOP ticket seems to understand that he has become a minority within a minority, within a diminishing number of supporters, as he says:
"I doubt there are 10% of the FReepers in agreement with me on this." Ten percent of a rapidly diminishing number of posting members could spell financial troubles for Robinson, as some of the site’s most steadfast financial supporters quietly melt into the night.
Then again, even as Free Republic fades into irrelevance, Robinson’s legacy lives on in an unintended cottage industry of forums offering refuge to FReepers wishing to distance themselves from Robinson.
As one of the members of The Briefing Room quipped recently:
"The FR meltdown is good for business, people are looking for a sanctuary, and a place where sanity still reigns. Our membership rolls are increasing hourly, and they all come to ask the same question…”what in the world happened to Free Republic?”
Sad thing, that what was once such a great notion will crumble and fall under the weight of such a negative and destructive actions, and that in the end, the great things accomplished by the many, will be dragged down into the mud by the few.
Well, I posted elsewhere that I was raised in a Christian family and was taught to beware of false prophets, false prophecy. I don’t hate Mormons, but I’m very sorry, I cannot accept Joesph Smith or the book of Mormon as anything but.
Some of these so-called anti Mormons have been posting here since the very beginning and criticizing Mormonism the whole time here. It’s not new and I’m not going to ban them now simply due to the fact that a Mormon is the presumptuous, er, presumptive nominee. Christians have just as much right to state their mind as anyone else. And I’ve stated ever since the beginning of FR, that I’m very biased toward God and our traditional Judeo-Christian values and teachings. I’m not going to demand that Christians cannot criticize false teachings on FR. My dear sainted mother, God rest her soul, would roll over in her grave if I did.
If this point causes the downfall of FR as some of our detractors pray, then so be it. My soul is more important to me than my politics.
I do love it there! Big trees , deep rich soils , good music and awesome folks like you!!
“You are wanting immediate gratification by removing Obama from office, which you think will make your life better and the nation safer....all this will do is give you the “instant gratification”, but it won’t do squat for the nation in the long term.”
I sure can judge! It's called "discernment" and if you don't know right from wrong then you don't know God. We are called to judge. The NT is full of warnings about people we should not associate with. How can you do that without judging?
What believers cannot do is condemn. That is God's job.
Both of those bastards were smart, lawless, and did more to destroy America than the current resident could ever do. He's a piker compared to those two.
/johnny
Hogwash - the articles posted come nearly 100% from mormon sources - then the mormons themselves are 'anti'. Middle America - as you call it - needs to be made aware of the nature of mormonism. So quit your bellyaching.
The reports of FR’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Time to just replace the DiLithium crystals in the zot cannon, and purge the site of those that post dismissively of our friends, and of FR itself on other sites.
There is no entitlement to post at FR.
Sorry! I typed in: “FReepers; patriots; friends” but I guess I was a little too slow.
bfl
I am a southern Baptist girl, I love the Jewish people as I know you do, but people on this site do not!!! Jim, do you think if Mitt were a Jew, he would try and tell you that Christ was only a prophet? I love Newt, but I am willing to vote for Mitt, because, he has never shown the propensity to govern due to Mormon doctrine!
I am trying to save Fr here! Yes I own Gopbriefingroom.com, but we are not an antifreep site! Mystery-ak, and I owe everything to this site, her husband and son were called to Iraq and afghan multiple times.. Yet she was banned here!! That is unbelievable!!!
YOU don't want people leaving? People who have donated for 10+ years? You need to think who are this people running your threads now? They are not really what you want, only what you think the conservatives want! Which is a lie!!! I don't know how else to try and get you to understand, that you are being used!!!
I am a southern Baptist girl, I love the Jewish people as I know you do, but people on this site do not!!! Jim, do you think if Mitt were a Jew, he would try and tell you that Christ was only a prophet? I love Newt, but I am willing to vote for Mitt, because, he has never shown the propensity to govern due to Mormon doctrine!
I am trying to save Fr here! Yes I own Gopbriefingroom.com, but we are not an antifreep site! Mystery-ak, and I owe everything to this site, her husband and son were called to Iraq and afghan multiple times.. Yet she was banned here!! That is unbelievable!!!
YOU don't want people leaving? People who have donated for 10+ years? You need to think who are this people running your threads now? They are not really what you want, only what you think the conservatives want! Which is a lie!!! I don't know how else to try and get you to understand, that you are being used!!!
Oh, that explains it. Thanks for clearing that up.
I didn’t realize Repub4bush was a Mormon.
Show me where in the bible I can find references to Joseph Smith or any of his works.
Lol...now why did u have to go and ruin a good memory!
You’re not a ‘conservative,’ and not much of an American if you truly believe that European Socialism gives us a chance of a standard of living that doesn’t include eating our pets.
European socialism isn’t living, it’s a life sentence without possibility of parole, and a short life at that.
But alas, you threw howlin and the rest of us under the bus the please Ivan... Then went back to Jim, whom none of had left or hated... Very Classy Onyx! BTW, where is you best friend Howlin :)
And I doubt I’ve ever said anything bad about Jeff Head. He’s a good man. I just don’t agree his choice for the presidency and can’t support that choice.
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