As far as I understand, Free Republic is "an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism." Now, frankly, advocating the expulsion of conservatives who aren't Republican and promoting a decidedly non-conservative Republican by whitewashing his record of one-way "bipartisan" treachery is neither independent and grass-roots nor conservative.
Obviously, FR belongs to Jim Robinson, and as a private operator, he may do with it as he wishes; but, otherwise, as far as I can tell, the day that blind loyalty to the Republican Party no matter what becomes the prerequisite for FR membership over adherence to conservative principles is the day that FR becomes nothing more than a mouthpiece of the Republican Party, just like Pravda was an organ of the Soviet government and Granma, of Castro and the Communists in Cuba.
As for McCain's consistently "bipartisan" record, I agree with upchuck, this idiocy needs to stop. Rewarding him with the presidency and then failing to counter him and check him at his every left turn only serves to validate everything he has done to (unwittingly?) damage the conservative movement and the Reagan conservative brand.
You are not promiting a conservative agenda, you are working on an Obama victory. You people have no shame.