JimRob hasn’t really changed anything. He has moved the forum onto more fertile political ground. Tightened up the exisitng guidelines for posting. Beefed up the basic groundrules. He shook up Free Republic and told everyone what we all should have known, all along. FR is a conservative forum. We advance the conservative agenda, support conservative candidates and defend the Constitution. Nothing new about that. There is no place for liberalism on FR.
What has changed is now some liberal Republicans want to take the GOP in a more leftwing direction and promote one of their own to lead the Party of Reagan. Come on, Rudy is already splitting the GOP apart. The old Reagan coalition of social and fiscal conservatives is showing serious cracks. The Rockefeller Republicans are enjoying every minute of this. I happen to think that standing up for conservatism and opposing liberalism is a good thing.
The people who aren’t here anylonger, left on their own accord or by their own actions. They don’t like Jim highlighting FR as a conservative bastion. From what I’ve seen, just about everyone of the recently departed weren’t conservative anyway. And whining about it does absolutely no good. If you’re uncomfortable with FR, my advice is to move along.
Thanks for the advice - but that’s not what I am asking for. I am asking that we collectively take a step back and be circumspect. This is not healthy. That is my heartfelt belief.