The consensus on Free Republic was different from the Republican majority that nominated Romney. Republicans across the spectrum did not hate Romney
Actually there was no consensus on Free Republic. There was narrow minded sanctimonious self righteousness that would tolerate nothing beyond narrow private agendas. There was strong religious bigotry. There were foolish candidates that tailored a message to the specific narrow minded agenda.
Conservatives have no one to blame but themselves. Unless conservatives throw away their paper towel tubes through which they look at their own narrow agenda they will never again succeed at electing a president they can barely tolerate
“The consensus on Free Republic was different from the Republican majority that nominated Romney. Republicans across the spectrum did not hate Romney
Actually there was no consensus on Free Republic. There was narrow minded sanctimonious self righteousness that would tolerate nothing beyond narrow private agendas. There was strong religious bigotry. There were foolish candidates that tailored a message to the specific narrow minded agenda.
Conservatives have no one to blame but themselves. Unless conservatives throw away their paper towel tubes through which they look at their own narrow agenda they will never again succeed at electing a president they can barely tolerate”
Haha. That is quite possibly the most revealing and honest thing I’ve ever seen here.
I don’t get worked into a lather about it very much because I figured out a while back that the less I let my personal feelings get vested in things beyond my control the happier I tend to be in my everyday life.
I love FR but Freepers aren’t the base of the GOP neither or we a majority. As you illustrated we’re not even a majority here on FR lol.
As I said earlier I’m expecting it to be Jeb simply because there’s not another candidate in line that’s acceptable to the majority of the GOP.
I also believe that if Freepers could get a candidate they could mostly agree on past the primary, that candidate would get squashed in a general election.
The consensus on Free Republic leading up to and including the early primaries was pretty solidly against Romney. It was only after it became evident that Romney would defeat the fractured conservatives did many freepers begin arguing for the lesser of two evils. JR reluctantly got to the same place not very long (roughly 3 weeks??) before the election.
Romney ran a terrible campaign, was personally weak, and excited exactly 2 people, his wife and his oldest son.
Having serious reservations about a candidates agenda is not “narrow minded agenda” it’s called freedom, and with all the time that is to pass before the nomination, and the general election, you want to form a consenses right now to nominate a GOPe candidate?
The last two candidates fit that mold and they lost!
The GOPe of today has a narrow minded treasonous agenda that American patriots have died fighting against in past history!