“There hasn’t been much to smile about around Free Republic, lately.”
Too many false-flag posters.
I don’t know if it is even “false flag” posters. I think that the Paulers actually convinced a lot of unhappy, single issue voters, that the Paulers were the only true conservatives. The Paulers use the term, “grassroots” to describe their effort to take over the GOP, they make it a “we” against “them” thing and then go about smearing all other candidates as part of the “them”.
We saw it all during the election. There were more smears of the candidates coming out of the Ron Paul Campaign than there were from Romney. I actually think that Romney used some of the Ron Paul smears to take out his opponents. Ron Paul displayed a visceral hatred for Rich Santorum because of his strong stand against abortion and he didn’t like Newt Gingrich or Cain or Perry, very much, either. It showed in his eyes.