I have been a freeper since 1998. With permission, changed my user name.
I have seen many changes here at FR. I go nuts when this site is not available for any reason.
That being said, One time somebody did not like what I said on some thread and they reported me. I was banned for awhile for just stateing my opinion. I know this has happened to many other freepers here as well.
I think when somebody starts a different conservative site I am happy. All of us have many points of view when it comes to conservatism. I think this is a good thing.
Before we pass judgement, we should wait and see how the site goes. As for the critisism of Jim Rob, well we all have people we know that don’t like us so I am not really considering what this person has to say.
In my dealings with Jim Rob (which are few the ban situation was really the only time), he was really nice, and I know he and his brother work very hard to make FR the best conservative site on the web.
One question though one might ask is, why do some people feel the need to move on from here? Find out why instead of blowing them off as morons and so forth.
Right now we need to stick together as conservatives and welcome the new site.
If they are nothing but liberal trolls trying to sabotage FR their true colors will be revealed soon enough.
It has already been discovered to be an anti-Freeper site. They also support conspiracy theories about 9/11 etc. They are anti-Israel and anti-Palin.
I just went and looked around.
There is nothing anti Palin about it, they are discussing her merits. There is nothing anti Israel about it. There was a thread with a poll about 9-11 and most people seem to be NOT buying into the conspiracy angle.
As for being anti FR, that's a mixed bag as near as I can tell. What the site does seem to be though is moderates that want to call themselves conservatives when they really aren't. They aren't all moderates mind you, but, a lot of them come off that way and I think the few conservatives that are posting there, won't stay there for long and will return to the real conservative site.
That's just my take on what I saw and read over there.