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.
You’re right, Spiff, I don’t like the thread. But it has information in it, and knowledge is power.
Jedward’s writing style is exactly the same as a FReeper who became the “owner” of a long-running thread last summer. The misspellings are the same, the “greetings” are the same, oh and his “friends” are the same. Some FReepers have a tremendous familiarity with “jedward”... from day one of the new identity.
This raises questions in the observers view....
Sorry you think your tactics further conservatism. I don’t. Hasta la vista, Spiffy.