[Tarpon]

I think it is undeniable what the REAL problem is, the media has joined the Democrat party. Until that gets fixed, we cannot expect a fair deal.

It's time to face that up front and begin making plans to circumvent. We are not without alternatives, talk radio, a few newspapers, FNC, and most of all the Internet itself. I admit it's a meager list, but ripe for expansion.

[DaveyB]

The problem is that Ann has more virtue than most any of the wooses in the republican party and their pundits. Medved is about strategy, Ann is about principle. The GOP is pragmatically about winning elections; Ann is about fighting to the death for conservativism.

Adding to the party is a fast road to liberalism (the enemy of liberty) if it dilutes the principle. Elect a liberal from the GOP and you get far more liberal governing than you would if a liberal Dem were elected. The worst thing for this country is for the GOP to loose its conservative Christian philosophy and elect RINO liberals. At least as an opposition party liberalism can be frustrated, but as the band leaders of just a little less liberalism the country will always get far more.

Ann keep fighting - let the delicate in the movement who have no stomach for the war go home. This is for the survival of the republic. Too bad so many here at free republic fear offending the enemy enough to defeat them.