MSM invective viciously maligned Palin and drove her from public life. They would have attacked anyone they claimed did the same things to a `rat woman candidate, and they did: Trump/Clinton and women generally.
This election was (imho) also the American public rejecting the hypocritical special pleading of the media.
My daughter, a late generation Y millennial, just made the same point on another issue: Black Lives Matter plans to protest Black Friday shopping’ “Why do they do that? Why don’t they emulate MLK Jr.? They don’t do themselves any favors blocking highways and acting as they did in Ferguson.”
So instead of gaining sympathy, as civil rights workers did in the `60s, the BLM and MSM continue to shoot themselves in the foot through bullying intimidation and thug tactics.
Maybe they thought bullying Palin worked, so they’re trying it now with the electors?
In sum, when your enemy is hurting himself, let him.
Happy Thanksgiving. Don’t eat too much bird. Death to American national socialism. Bless President Donald Trump and Free Republic, a bulwark of his early and strong support and the Robinson family.
I would urge FR to keep on questioning itself and begging God for blessings that we continue to not deserve and couldn’t ever possibly deserve.
I think its biggest impact has probably been as a spiritual center. As far as real world politics is concerned, it’s basically provided confirmation bias to existing forms of conservatism, whether biblical or not. It also got little mention in Wikileaks, meaning that it is viewed as nothing more than a sounding board, as a conservative answer to DU that really doesn’t do a lot other than fume.