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
I agree with the taxes you list, although many of those are state and local taxes that would remain unaffected by 9-9-9, the question was whether or not the business income tax functioned as a VAT. I think the way it is currently structured, it appears it functions as one. You can argue that this is better than the current, byzantine tax code, but you can’t argue it isn’t what it is.
I like “Major League” (also with Chazz), the sequels are terrible though.
And my old childhood favorite “The Sandlot”.
I also liked “Rookie of the Year” when I was a kid. Upon seeing it as an adult though I realized it was a horrendous piece of crap.
It’s not his Mormanism. It’s his liberalism. You can call it “hate” if that makes you feel better. But frankly, I don’t have much “feeling” about Romney one way or the other. He kind of glides thru without making much of an impression on me beyond the surface polish.
What I do hate is that the R establishemnt is going to cram yet another liberal down our throats after doing it in ‘88, ‘92, ‘96, ‘00, ‘04, and ‘08. They are doing it again.
Reagan was the last opportunity us older ones had to even vote for a conservative for president. A whole generation of young conservatives has NEVER had the chance to vote for a conservative for president.
That’s not the Democrats fault. It’s the GOP’s fault. The money in the GOP fears and hates conservatives. Bad for business and all that plus, they’re not sophisticated like us—so neanderthal with all that Bible and flag stuff. It’s that simple. I’ve been on the inside and I can tell you that is true and the way it works.
The only guys that get out of the primaries are the ones Karl Rove (or his like in the state parties) knows will play ball and not rock the boat (regardless what the candidate says to the voters). They will keep the nanny state expanding, not interfere with the alphabet agency power, keep the illegals flowing across the border, keep the cronyism going, etc etc. If a conservative bucks that and wins the primary, he is usually villified by the GOP establishment and is pretty much on his own financially in the general election.
My only difference with Romney “haters” is that I don’t blame Mitt. He’s just fulfilling his silver spoon destiny to be the next progressive technocrat president and advance the state’s glory. I blame the guys who run the GOP.
I don’t see why you cannot see Romney is the next guy in a sorry chain of GOP nominees. It is obvious to all but the willfully blind.
No, no. Joy Behar gets to play Hitler.
I think you have to be a fan of baseball to appreciate films like that. I’ve never gotten much into sports (save for a brief foray into tennis 2 decades ago, which had more to do with watching women), so I’ve never understood the obsession with it.
Yes, the first Major League was good.
The Sandlot, also good.
Rookie of the Year: Ehhh. Not that bad.
A fat Hitler.
Women’s tennis: You beast!
Baseball on TV can be very boring. Throw in the amount of ads (like the NFL, it’s worse than ever this year, which is why I’m not watching much), the attitude of many of the players, and yes, it’s easy not to be a fan of sports.
At the close of the Republican Convention, you will be able to tell if obama gets a second term or not. If the Republican Party has a RINO as its standard bearer, obama is guranteed a second term. Without campaigning. The choice is theirs.
AMENed!
I suggest making a checklist of the most important conservative values and then determining which candidate meets those values.
Assigning the RINO label to a candidate is frequently based on a single issue that’s NOT among the top 4 or 5 conservative values.
I absolutely love Field of Dreams. I think it’s right up there with Raging Bull, Hoosiers, Rocky, and Bang the Drum Slowly (an early ‘70s film with Michael Moriarty and Robert DeNiro about a baseball player diagnosed with cancer) among the best sports films of all time.
Eight Men Out is good, too, and the original Major League was fun (albeit not as good as Bull Durham). I never cared much for The Sandlot. Rookie of the Year was an abomination (”horrendous piece of crap” does not do it justice); my brother liked “Little Big League” (about the pre-teen who manages a major-league team) and I used to think that he was talking about Rookie of the Year, but it’s a different (and far better) film.
DeNiro is a flaming leftist, but he was phenomenal in that one (The Deer Hunter too).
“We are smarter than the average bear here.” mnehring wrote.
Oh, I see. Then manufacturers and small businesses will be exempt from the nine percent tax when they pay for materials? Or will they just be prohibited from passing the extra cost along to the consumer? Smart bears or fuzzy math?
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