Spiff, this thread is bogus!! The original poster of this thread is bogus!! What gives this newbie such credibility in your eyes?
I don't think much of Thompson myself, as I don't watch that TV show. Also, he voted for McCain/Feingold CFR. It wasn't that long ago that CFR was going to shut FR down. We fought that and won, at least temporarily.
Why turn around and try to censor other conservative Republicans on this site? Are we unable to have discussions with others who disagree with us? I don't get it.
I got on board with Jim Robinson's thread that declared this to be a conservative site, but that was before it turned into a mass banning. The Giuliani supporters were nowhere near to "taking over" the site.
A few months ago, FR took a poll of FReepers in which Duncan Hunter came out clearly ahead of the pack and Rudy fell way back. We have vigorous Hunter support here.
Then, as if overnight, Fred appeared and magically the FR poll showed Thompson way ahead. Things have changed fast around here since that event.
I can, and I have, drawn my own conclusions from that.
What gives this newbie such credibility in your eyes?
***Looks like we have a new owl to rile up the crows.
Censor conservative Republicans? Not hardly. On Free Republic, we've always trashed every liberal supporter who has made the mistake of supporting a liberal here. And we've done it pretty mercilessly. There's thousands of zotted threads and even more zotted posters who had their 15 seconds of fame promoting some liberal cause or candidate. The only thing new is that a bunch of long time FReepers decided to swill the KoolAid and support a Republican liberal named Rudy Giuliani. He's still a liberal no matter what letter comes after his name and those who support him are still supporting a liberal.
To make things even more clear, the owner of this forum has announced the effort to "swiftboat" Giuliani and his campaign. If you go to the main forum page, look at the link just above the threads. You'll see it is a special link put there by Jim Robinson that says, "The Giuliani Truth File - Rudy: In his own words and deeds." The purpose of the link is to aggregate stories about Giuliani and his own statements that Free Republic can use AGAINST Giuliani to ruin his campaign and his chances at gaining the Republican nomination. Can it get any clearer than that?
As I said, FReepers have pretty much been given the choice to get with the program, get out of the way of that program, or they can choose to just get out.
Recent FReeper, jedward, took it upon himself to create a STOP RUDY NOW thread to further the effort to "swiftboat" Giuliani. This is fully in line with Jim Robinson's statement that such "swiftboating" will eventually have to be taken on at separate sites as a more firm organization emerges. But then a bunch of Rudybots swarmed the thread and disrupted it. You and Chena are playing some game, trying to take jedward down with a bunch of unsubstantiated innuendo. If you don't like the thread, then don't read it.