Red State and Free Republic Declare War on Mitt Romney Supporters for Some Reason [JR post 132]

Myth Romney Central ^

[mnehring]

The editors at Red State and Free Republic (among others) have had the wool pulled over their eyes. They seem to actually believe the lies originally propagated by supporters of President Obama and, in some cases, even by President Obama himself. Now, for some reason, these editors/moderators are so insecure in their prejudice against Gov. Romney that they ban people who openly support Gov. Romney. Free Republic (mostly because of it’s owner Jim Robinson) has purged all of the Romney supporters they could from the site in two waves of purges over the last few years. The anti-Romney and anti-Mormon bigotry evident at Free Republic now is absolutely sickening.

I haven’t been to Free Republic quite as much as I used to partly because I have been banned from posting. During the 2008 election, Mitt was accepted and lauded by many at Free Republic like he was by most conservatives. One of the best summaries of Gov. Romney’s accomplishments was actually from Free Republic. However, Jim Robinson seemingly fell in love with Sarah Palin and initiated purges of anyone who wouldn’t pledge allegiance to her. A few months back, I tried to make a new account and see if I could post about Gov. Romney’s jobs plan and I was promptly banned and called a few derogatory names implying that I was a Mormon. Besides the fact that I am not Mormon, I can’t for the life of me figure out how a site like that, filled with such hate, can find enough donors to keep it going. When I think of Free Republic, I’m reminded of the scene from Star Wars Episode IV where Luke is warned that he is entering “A Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany”.

Red State has been fairly hostile to Gov. Romney for awhile, but they have crossed into new lows now as well. The guys from WhyRomney.com [3] have been working very hard and diligently to refute some of the many misconceptions about Gov. Romney, and I hope this unfortunate episode won’t dissuade them or anyone else from trying to correct the people endlessly smearing Gov. Romney. What so many of these people who don’t like Gov. Romney don’t seem to realize is that they have been fed reasons to not like Gov. Romney by highly-funded democratic think tanks. It’s abundantly clear now, no matter what Rush Limbaugh says [4], that President Obama is scared to death of facing Mitt Romney [5] in the general election.

If you want to check out the three open letters posted to Red State, you can read the one on mandates and health care here [6], the one about abortion here [7], and the final one on miscellaneous issues here [8] unless Red State removes the posts now that they have cowardly banned the authors of the letters. Also, I’ve saved a screen shot of the admin belittling the efforts of our friends from WhyRomney [9] and giving his/her bogus reason for banning them which you can read here [10] just in case the admin tries to cover his/her tracks in shame. If you want to see how rude Free Republic is without actually subjecting yourself to the hate, just click here [11] for a screen shot of the reason they banned the author of a similar open letter.

I know there are bastions of bigotry against Mormons on other sites besides Free Republic and that Free Republic and Red State aren’t the only sites that have ever banned people they disagreed with, but I’ve concluded that they are the grandparents of this anti-Romney crusade that fortunately seems destined to fail. Some other sites seem predisposed against supporting Mitt, but not at the dangerous level of these two.

The motives of people like Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh [12] to not want Gov. Mitt Romney to be the GOP nominee are easy to understand (hint: they make more money with President Obama in the White House), but I believe many other sites and conservatives are simply following their lead reinforced by the disingenuous people at Red State and the sheltered leader of Free Republic. Most other conservative sites that support candidates other than Mitt at least vow to support Mitt if he is the nominee, but I worry about what is festering at Free Republic and now, Red State. Once our nominee is selected, we will need all hands on deck to defeat President Obama. The members of these two sites should realize how detrimental the actions of their leaders may end up being to the ultimate cause of making President Obama a one-term President. I hope they will ask for their leaders to act in a more responsible fashion.

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WELCOME TO FREE REPUBLIC!

NOTE: FR's "editor" (namely, me) is not shy about stating FR's conservative principles, purposes and goals or about stating why liberal progressive RINOS are not acceptable on FR and so adds the following links for reference:

One more time: FR's God-given Life & Liberty constitutional conservative activism agenda!!

The truth about Romney straight from HIS progressive big mouth

Romney Truth File

--Jim Robinson

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[dragonblustar]

acted like a Mormon and upheld their value

If Romney acted like a true mormon, he would have two or three more wives.

[runninglips]

Nice picture, and I didn’t even catch the hidden message.....OUTSTANDING, and on my desktop for the duration.

[SaraJohnson]

With Romney, his main problems are radical gay nonsense, socialized medicine and the algore global warming band wagon...etc.

Why would we support another international socialist (elitist Rino) for the White House to replace the international socialist (elitist Democrat) we got in there now?

Who will win a competition between two socialists? The real McCoy - Obama will win. With Mittens, Obama can say “he does it, too” about every Federal offense that brought the Tea Party (conservatives and independents) together.

Americans are a tad tired of the same old same old one party system on the fast track to global fascism/communism and structured poverty. Whether a Muslim takes us or a Mormon takes us over the edge to global slavery, it does not matter in the end.

[runninglips]

You didn’t write to me with that resoponse on post #64, but it hit home. I truly believe that Obama is less dangerous than a RINO. With 0 in office, the House and Senate can stifle any attempts are further damage, if they have the cojones. If they don’t, any RINO would propose the same types of programs as 0, and get rubberstamped by Congress, while the Kool-aid drinkers in the Republican party would herald him as moderate and “a thinking mans” politician. NO MORE PROGRESSIVES, no matter what office, or who they are running against. That is my story, and I am sticking to it.

[Saundra Duffy]

So if it’s a choice between Obama and Romney, you would choose Obama. Alrighty then.

[dragonblustar]

“I wouldn’t vote for a Catholic for dog catcher, much less President of the United States of America!” Oh, those Catholics - playing the victim card again.

Why are you using Catholics when Mormons have notoriously slandered Catholics and made fun of them praying for the intercession of Saints? I've heard Mormons claim Catholics pray to a bunch of different gods...

[Saundra Duffy]

“Can you tell us what it is you like about him? What you see as his good points?”

Well, at the risk of getting banned:
Intelligent, good business sense, strong family man with no personal baggage, saved the Olympics, best in the debates bar none, a popular governor of a state, experienced leader, understands economics, loves America, well spoken, accomplished wife who would make a great First Lady, and I could go on and on.

Newt could probably beat Obama in debates but probably won’t get the chance. I am confident that Romney could kick Obama’s rear in a debate and I am also confident that Romney would run one heck of a campaign against Obama and win . . . unless the GOP stabs him in the back.

Most informed people are aware that Obama fears Romney more than any of the other candidates.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

we’re not allowed to refute them or have a different opinion on this site. It’s kind of like communism.

Like communism...sure...
And yet on your profile page you say that Jim Robinson is your hero.

[Saundra Duffy]

Well, they don’t allow free speech in communist countries, do they?

[Diogenesis]

Romney is HATED in Massachusetts. HATED.

The carpetbagger fled.

How about the fact that Romney MUST play his Mormon card
over and over to keep the public from this:

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

[Allegra]

Thank you for your reply; I really do appreciate it.

Most informed people are aware that Obama fears Romney more than any of the other candidates.

We'll have to agree to disagree. Many well-informed people see Romney as the one the Democrats/media desperately want on the GOP ticket because he is so like Obama that they feel he would be easy to defeat.

[Jim Robinson]

For some reason?

Uh, like his liberal RECORD on abortion, homo sexual rights, gun-control, global warming, socialist health care, big government mandates, etc.

FR is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-constitution, pro-small government, pro-Liberty CONSERVATIVE web site. Romney is none of the above.

Support for abortionist, gay rights, gun-grabbing, big government mandate-loving liberal progressive politicians is UNWELCOME here!!

The liberal/progressive loving idiot who wrote this screed can shove it and Myth Romney where the sun don’t shine.

And if his supporters don’t like what we stand for here on FR, they’re always free to post their blind love for Mitt elsewhere. I won’t try to stop them.

But there will be no campaign for liberal progressives (ie, Marxism-lite) on FR!! Period!!

And, Saundra, there are no lies about Myth Romney. Every word of it is straight from the horse’s ass and recorded on video (many times). Here are several of his recorded speeches and debates where Myth explained and passionately argued for his liberal progressive positions on all of the above all rolled into one video.

Watch it in its entirety if you dare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU

[aMorePerfectUnion]

"Most informed people are aware that Obama fears Romney more than any of the other candidates."

Ha! Ha! Ha!!!!! Good one Sandy!!! :-)

[Dengar01]

He used a Star Wars reference! A+ for effort... NOT!!!

I'm proud that he says FR is Mos Eisley. I'm very fond of Tatooine. Can I play the role of Luke Skywalker and lightsaber RINOs???

[Grunthor]

“During the 2008 election, Mitt was accepted and lauded by many at Free Republic like he was by most conservatives.”

That’s because he was not MCCAIN!

[Jim Robinson]

We didn’t call them Rudy McRomney for nothing. McCain was simply the last RINO standing. All three of them were despised on FR.

[smalltownslick]

If they would both do the same thing, I’d rather the Democrat get blamed for it.

[Jim Robinson]

However, McCain was at least pro-life and unlike the others willingly served his country.

[Dengar01]

I don't even want to watch the debates with Myth smirking.

That makes me want to break the television!!!

Romney and Obama are like clones. Although Obama doesn't smirk like Romney does. For some reason Romney's smirking drives me absolutely nutty. He thinks he has this in the bag, and his zombie supporters now are going to the gutter and say "FR hates Mormons".

/sigh, just add that to all the "ists" I was called by the Perrybots. Oh well, I don't mind being a punching bag, but I'm still voting for Herman Cain, that ain't gonna change!!! I don't vote for RINOs!!!

[monkapotamus]