Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents.
One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They never intended God or religion to be written out of public life. They never intended government to be used to deny God's existence or for government to be used to force sexual perversions onto our society or into our children's education curriculum. They never intend for government to disarm the people. They never intended for government to set up sanctuary cities for illegals. They never intended government to “rule” over the people and or to take their earnings or private property or to deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech, free religion, private property, due process, etc. They never intended government to seize the private property of private citizens through draconian asset forfeiture laws or laws allowing government to take private property from lawful owners to give to developers. Or to seize wealth and redistribute it to others. Or to provide government forced health insurance or government forced retirement systems.
All of the above are examples of ever expanding socialism and tyranny brought to us by liberals/liberalism.
FR fights against the liberals/Democrats in all of these areas and always will. Now if liberalism infiltrates into the Republican party and Republicans start promoting all this socialist garbage, do you think that I or FR will suddenly stop fighting against it? Do you think I'm going to bow down and accept abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, global warming, illegal alien lawbreakers, gun control, asset forfeiture, socialism, tyranny, totalitarianism, etc, etc, etc, just so some fancy New York liberal lawyer can become president from the Republican party?
Do you really expect me to do that?
I support the effort to have nothing to do with, and not put up with the Rudy nomination. He is not conservative, and, IMHO, does not support the fundamental, core, moral values that define us as a free, God-fearing nation.
At the same time, as I have said, I am also saddened to see some of the long time people whom I have worked with against other liberals and socailistic issues lost from FR.
That's my point...whatever led to their leaving or banning, and stating up front and forthrightly that my opposition to Rudy is non-negotiable and fundamental, I will also not forget and pretend that these other individuals other efforts never happened...because they did.
Now...forward to getting a Hunter or Thompson on the ticket.
Nonsense.
This isn't the first time we've had in-house battles.
It will pass.
And, they're very efficient it would seem. ;^)
I just found it today! Good grief... 9659+ posts and I'm the last one to know. So are the Rudybots all gone?
“It’s retrenching itself, and preparing for the battle of the next year and a half.”
That’s right! And the left was and is NOT prepared for this. We have the initiative and we will not give it up!
I am fully aware you are trying your best to get me banned.
“I am unhappy to see what this thread has degenerated into”
You’ve said this same thing in a variety of ways about 8 times in 3-4 hours or less.
If you don’t like the thread, started by the owner, get the freak out.
..cause I'm extra proud to belong to Free Republic!
Swiftboat vetting saved us from the threat of one liberal activist president and could work to save us from the threat of another. Too bad so many Republicans are so blinded by fear that they’re willing to be led meekly off like sheep to the slaughter. RIP GOP.
I agree. Getting rid of the liberals, and the hand-wringers, is a pruning of infection and dead wood from an otherwise flourishing tree.
It certainly is. I can attest to that since you've already dragged me along with you to the tune of $90 total. By the way, we don't really know that all of the zots were bans or merely suspensions. With the exception of MiaT, I'm quite pleased to see the rest of them gone (assuming they were banned and not merely slapped on the wrist with a short suspension).
"OK if FO was worth $50, then this pain-in-the-rear goof is good for $20."
Concur completely, and I'll be pleased to match you again IF it's a ban rather than a suspension.
They don’t need the mass freepmails anymore, now they just coordinate everything from their closed Wide Awakes thread.
—FR’s not dying. It’s retrenching itself, and preparing for the battle of the next year and a half. It’ll be ugly, and it’ll be hard. But it’s necessary.-—
That’s exactly what’s up.
Most are little more than lame blogs or glorified chat rooms.
Here I can get all my news and honest conservative debate of same.
Thanks Cindy, yes it is a somewhat sad thread, I guess depending upon ones perspective.
JR is just defining in crystal clarity his position on this issue regarding Rudy.
Some do not like that position, some do not like how he went about it. But it is his site, and that clear definition is, IMHO, actually a good thing and something needed amongst the conservative base to put their collective foot down in abject opposition to a Rudy nomination.
But that is simple my opinion.
I am. And your statements about me are all still totally wrong.
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