McCoy: No, Spock, you long eared, inhuman hobgoblin, Romney has no brain...
Kirk: I want to try out those new ZOT torpedos this time...
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
BTW, who did Slick Willard save the Olympics from ? Was it Godzilla or Mothra ?
Dat ain’t no she.
He a thin lipped, mousy haired, off key . . . Dude....
Boo F’n Hoo
I think it was ninjas.
No wait I remember now, it was nazi zombies. They built a time machine and went back to 1936 to kill Jesse Owens. Mitt beat them all in a sword fight and then made out with Eva Braun.
Ah, yes, and for a reward, Eva gave Willard Adolf’s missing nut.
That’s hilarious. Disagree with the underlying message, but it’s funny as heck.
“OK so you hate Romney but if he is the nominee will you vote for him or will you let Obama have his way with you. Bend over.”
And we’ll all get to squeal lahk a pig if the nominee is mittens.
Sorry. The “choice” between an incompetent socialist and a competent one is a false one. The end result won’t look much different so I’ll abstain from that false choice and urge others to do the same.
Oh. So that’s what a zot looks like.
I’d kind of hoped that it was accompanied with lightning graphics or Wagner music, but I guess it gets the job done.
“The problem here is that the lies about Romney have been spewed over and over and over and we’re not allowed to refute them or have a different opinion on this site. It’s kind of like communism.”
Naaah. It’s kind of like free speech on a private website. If the person who owns and runs the website doesn’t want to tolerate a certain point of view, that’s their right. As it would be your right to start your own website should you so wish. You could call it “free romney” and devote every post to dispelling the so-called lies about mittens that you find so offensive.
But you won’t do it, even if you could because you know that no one would bother to read it.
McCoy: No, Spock, you long eared, inhuman hobgoblin, Romney has no brain...
Kirk: I want to try out those new ZOT torpedos this time...
I partially think Chicago got hosed for 2016 because of Salt Lake City. Think about it, 2004 Athens, 2006 Nagano, 2008 China, 2010 Vancouver, 2012 London, 2014 I forgot, 2016 Rio, no US cities on that list.
What trash!
A total pile of dog doo-doo.
I’ve been jumping on Palin’s case for months and gotten away with it (I haven’t gone to Pissant extremes but have been pretty hard on her).
Of course, I’ve also posted some anti-Mormon and anti-Joe Smith material from a Christian apologetics perspective, so maybe this whiner would argue that it was my “saving grace” on FR, lol.
For the life of me, I do not understand how anyone who had even a basic knowledge of Mormonism and Mormon origins could call opposition to the heretical sect “bigotry.” Don’t these mind-number Romneybots realize that there are genuine differences between religions? Maybe their problem is a rejection of God himself and the condemnation of those who persist in defending his Word as “bigots.”
Truly pathetic.
And the accusations against Rush and Levin are absolutely uncalled for. I doubt that either is in any financial need at all and neither is greedy enough to desire a continuation of the Obama regime simply to provide an easy target for verbal attacks and satire.
A sick and twisted individual indeed, truly deserving of “zotting.”
“However, Jim Robinson seemingly fell in love with Sarah Palin and initiated purges of anyone who wouldn’t pledge allegiance to her.”
When did that happen ? I must have missed that. I’m a fairly new member and no one asked me who I supported. Not only that, there are several posters who follow folks Mr. Robinson doesn’t care for (RuPaul, to name a name) and no one has been banned for that. What gets you banned is personally attacking another FReeper, using OWS like language, or trolling.
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First, it was seeing the following on mnehring's home page:
This account is on super-secret double-secret probation.
Within minutes after replacing the first keyboard, I see SFD's Zot torpedoes.
On second thought, I'll bet Jim Thompson had something to do with this.
The reason should be obviously clear to anyone who pays attention to such things. To feign obtuseness to the fact that Romney is the farthest thing from a Conservative and embraces the progressive agenda of big government is to mark yourself as fellow traveler, aka; pinko-commie, socialist, etc...
That's what he and the GOP wizards are counting on.
lol
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