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Posted on 10/29/2011 8:05:02 AM PDT by mnehring
Edited on 10/29/2011 2:08:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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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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
--Jim Robinson
“For some reason”? Gotta be kidding me. Romney is the face of a lot that is wrong with the Republican party. He’s not quite the loser that McCain is, but he’s not the guy who should be candidate.
This is like saying that conservatives have a problem with John McCain and Barack Zero “for some reason”.
The idiots who support the big government, Reagan Revolution loathing, tea party loathing, liberal progressive RINO Myth Romney have no clue to what this election is all about.
And that includes Karl Rove and the establishment Reagan Revolution loathing, tea party loathing, RINO-pushing GOP elite who are our (the TEA Party Patriots’) prime targets.
Go TEA Party!!
FUMR!! FUKR!! FURINOGOP!!
I can see November from my house!!
Romneyhas nothing “in the bag”.
NOT ONE VOTE HAS BEEN CAST.
He can and will be stopped in the primaries, provided we TEA PARTY PATRIOTS:
WORK HARD, GET VOTERS TO THE POLLS, AND PRAY NON STOP!
Choose your conservative candidate wisely and support your candidate with your time and money.
Well then
Bye bye Sandy...
Be careful out there
Does Romney think he can win without the conservative base of the Republican party? He hasn’t a chance. He should just dropout now and spare us another 4 years of Obama. Romney can’t win.
Wonder no more. With Barack Hussein, you know exactly what you’re getting. He’s predictable. You know how he’s going to roll. You’re not surprised that he takes the Marxist side of everything. Romney is like McCain in that you never really know how he’s going to screw you. He’ll talk a good game, execute half of a good plan, then jam on the brakes, sell out to the libs, and then take the podium bragging that he crossed the aisle and brought everybody together. Whenever a Republican “crosses the aisle” and “participates in a bipartisan solution”, it means that we’re all getting screwed HARD.
Or if you don’t like that explanation, he got elected to state govt. in Massachusetts. That’s the only reason anybody should ever have for not voting for Mr. RINO-Care.
Not always. Once upon a time, we had reasoned -- though heated --- discussions on this forum that didn't result in bannings. I've seen people change their views to be the same as yours, Jim. 'mnehring' would be an example. I think that is pathetic. I would never change my views to conform to groupthink. I would still consider voting for Romney if he becomes the GOP presidential candidate, especially with a well-chosen VP candidate. I realize that free speech is restricted on this forum, so if you don't even want people who would consider going with the GOP candidate, well, ban me now. I realize you post these threads as zot-bait anyway, so be it.
If you want to expound on the virtues of the mooshy middle and advocate Republican caving to welfare-state marxists, you have the message boards of every on-line newspaper and 99.9999% of the “news” outlets to go to. Google one at random and you’re in like Flynn. They’ll accept you, believe me. No need to waste your time here.
Even Perry’s pastor said that if Romney ends up the nominee he would support him. That’s saying something for a guy who believes that all the Catholics and Jews are going to hell with all us Mormons.
Not really. Romney and Soretoro are both cancer to the Republic. Barry's regime of terror is like Pancreatic, its swift and sure death. Mitt is more like prostate cancer in that it will kill you if left untreated. If Mitt keeps his intention to managing this nation's decline then he is like untreated cancer.
Perry's pastor, if you can call him that, is simply stating what is obvious to the rest of us, that in terms of getting cancer, the one that is treatable and less likely to kill you is preferred.
The problem is, the cancer of Barry has already metastasized the body, in some ways, this election cycle is nothing more than theater.
strong family man with no personal baggage,
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You dont know that for sure...
A guy who will embrace a religion based on getting as many young girls into bed as a guy can is hardly a “strong family man”
and just because you dont know about any baggage doesnt mean he doesnt have any...
He did spend those nearly 3 years in Paris vacating in a mansion and driving a Citroen during Vietnam...
You dont know what he did there...
You dont know what else Daddy George covered up and fixed for him besides that fatal car accident...
These are not exactly very honest people about their pasts...social or political...
You are free to say things like that about the virtues of Mother Teresa and I for one will readily believe you ...
But this is Williard Mitt Romney...
My biggest gripe with Romney is that he’s not conservative, he’s a Bush-style progressive.
If it wasn't clear by my other posts, I didn't most this out of support for what the article says. I posted it because it was a typical whiny rino crybaby article that we all like to make fun of here.
Look, we’re not going to support abortionist, homosexualist, gun-grabbing, global warming pushing, big government solution loving, mandate loving, liberal progressive RINO SOBs on this pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government, pro-constitution, pro-liberty grassroots conservative website. Period. If you wish to do that, then please post elsewhere.
That’s just the way it is.
Somebody call the waaaaambulance. I think the big dog will agree, this isn’t a free advertising site for RINOs and no one should be surprised the treatment RINOs- especially the extreme left kind like Rudy, Romney, and Paul get here. This is the gauntlet. If their arguments can’t survive this place, they shouldn’t be strong enough to get to promote them here.
Oh yes, people have already been playing the religious hatred card on Romney. The problem isn’t his religion, it’s that he’s a progressive RINO slug.
Romney is obviously a RINO (Republican In Name Only) too and here are the reasons why...
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7OQoBxZZPqU
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