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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.
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
--Jim Robinson
Here is an easy listing of probably the most bi-polar politician on the issue you can find.
http://www.issues2000.org/2012/Mitt_Romney_Abortion.htm
..and this is just the abortion issue. People don’t trust Mitt for the basic reason is that he is a typical, slimy politician who will say anything to win over the crowd he is talking to. He makes Bill Clinton seem almost honest. He reminds me of Joe Isuzu.. “Trust Me”.
Which is pretty much everyone except Baraq. Too bad, Newt would be wonderful to watch carving up Zero in a debate.
I used to like Newt and wish I still could, but his falling for the global warming scam tells me he’s not to be trusted.
Mitt Romney is by all counts a kind of nightmare version of
John McCain re-animated. I say nightmare version, because like too many people you’d hope would’ve learned something in the last three years, he still doesn’t know how or why the Tea Party voters exist, or why they MUST be taken seriously.He doesn’t understand that without them he won’t win primaries, and that to millions of voters, it’s instinctively understood that he’s being pushed down our throats, just as all of Obama’s policies have been pushed down our throats for three years. Mittens is clueless and will stay clueless. McCain at least introduced us to Sarah Palin, Romney will introduce us to nothing except the possibility of four more years of Obama. The Tea Party HAS a candidate now, and it seems to be Herman Cain. We’d better decide who we are getting behind soon, and get behind him unreservedly.
There are maybe three legitimate candidates still in contention and Mitt Romney is not one of them.
Romney as the nominee will create nothing but chaos.
Maybe that’s ultimately what the Left has in mind for us
as the easiest way to create civil/class war they can then take advantage of and exploit.THAT way Obama can stay aloof, keep his hands clean, and watch those dangerous Tea Party types live up to all the predictions Janet Napolitano made for them.
.....or Mormonism (^;^)
Ah yes, the peer pressure BS,”... most informed people”. Surely you are perceptive enough to realialize that this type of rhetorical device will never work with FReepers !
So how about a little list like this for bad points:
Glasslooking, charlatan, polygamy, mountains meadows massacre,
“white and delightsome”, Kolob, Sacred garments,Spirit Children, reformed Egyptian, the angel Moron(i).It goes on and on and on.
Frankly most Star Trek episodes were better written than Joseph Smith’s ridiculous opus.
If you are such an adamant Pro-lifer, how can you justify shilling for Pro-abortion Romney? He hasn’t changed his beliefs but only says what is politically expedient. I could not vote for someone who was wishy-washy on this issue, how can you? Is it just not that important enough issue for you?
If Romney wins the nod, will you vote for him, or stay home and let Obama into the WH again?
I’m not dealing with that battle now. This is primary season and the goal is to beat RINOs and get the best candidate possible. When the general election comes around, I will select the best possible path presented in front of me, be it holding my nose, or looking at other options to vote for. I figure, if someone like Romney or Paul gets the nomination, our problems have gotten so bad, it may be finally time to give a third party a nod (albeit, in the past they never presented a good alternative). Getting a RINO to the extreme of one of those two would create a philosophical power vacuum we may actually have an opportunity for a third party that isn’t a freak party.
Actually, it’s nothing like communism.
There are about 6.3 million Mormons in the U.S.(2007) and, of that number, I’d guess less than half are voting age adults. So, even if ALL Mormons voted for Romney the voting block would only be a fraction of the total vote. I don’t see that as a real threat. Thank God.
Good for you. I’ll pass on the vid.
A really free married guy answers only to God and country, and informs the wife.
And then there's Perry.
Cheers!
And it's, like, from another Mormon an' everything, so you can't play the Waaaaahbulance card.
Cheers!
Here's a video you might want to watch, before you spew that deceit on another thread:
In Iowa, the DeMoine Register poll shows Cain and Romney at the top of the heap.
Thank you Saundra. It's been years since I heard a Romneybot spew out that old chestnut. I forgot how amusing it is.
People can change.
Indeed indeed. I think it's just wonderful that Mitt Romney came over to the pro-life side just in time to run for President.
Beck’s great.
‘Cept when he starts with that crying thing which is fine but, he has over played it.
Still, I loved his summer of history. Just terrific.
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