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
1 out of 3 "ain't" bad. ; )
Saundra; if Romney becomes the GOP nominee, by some quirk or chicanery, Obama will be re-elected. NO conservative would vote for that vacillating sob. If Jim is so gung ho anti Romney, wtf are you still doing here?
They shoot Mormons, don’t they?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828301/posts
I wrote that during the previous campaign when it was still a free FreeRepublic . . . somewhat anyway.
Cute how they try to link these two...I couldn't care less that Milt is a Mormon...he's from New England. That raises a red flag immediately. Then you take notice of all the flip-flopping...his liberal stances on pretty much everything...
No Romney, no way. Anne Barnhardt is right...this used-car salesman has NO integrity...like she advises; "Go away, Mitt..."
Quick, send him a butthurt form.
I call Barbara Streisand on that.
First of all, I’m tired of hearing the “people are bigoted towards Flip Romney’s religion, that’s why they’re opposed to him” line. Flip’s drones who use that line sound more like liberals who play the race / victim card than real conservatives.
What I care about is how his views change like the weather. He’ll say anything and be anyone in order to get elected. He invokes Reagan, years after saying he was an “independent” during Reagan Bush. He’s anti-gun, then he’s pro gun. He thinks glo-BULL warming exists, and then says he doesn’t know if there’s proof. He was for Ohio’s Prop 5 before he was against it (sounds like another Massachusetts pol., doesn’t it?)
And then the real kicker...RomneyCare. He said he’d like to see that happen nationaly, then denies he said it or even wrote it in his book. Put him up against Obama, and ObamaCare gets taken off the table as an issue because of RomneyCare. Plus, all the WallStreet stuff that the Occupy Squatters are screming about will get stuck to Flip by the Obama Regime and his media lapdogs.
Romney is a liberal RINO who’s got more waffles than an IHOP. Nominating him against Obama would be suicide, and would guarantee an Obama re-election.
Plus, why would the GOP want to nominate someone who couldn’t even beat John McLame in 2008?
So basically you admit to being one of those agitating the religious dissension. Nice. I notice you keep making the Mitt issue about Mormons when it is actually about Mitt’s Liberal record.
Maybe you should look in the mirror as to who is playing into Obama’s hands.
After all, who is it the media ‘loves’?- Mitt
Who is it the establishment types love?- Mitt
Who is it that Obama seems to want to run against?- Mitt
If anything, Mittens and the Roid are MINOs anyway. From the little I know about Mormonism, they both go wildly against Mormon teaching in the area of spending.
But NONE of them ever figured out the real RINO-killer message.
Does anyone read long posts like this one? Doubt it. I have decided that the reason some so-called conservatives hate Romney more than they hate Obama is because it’s a spiritual battle. This article poses the question in an interesting manner. Food for thought.
IBSDZ
Meanwhile, back at romney central, walter mitty has suddenly and ‘inexplicably’ changed his mind on manmade globull warming. Yes, he did. I am so relieved to hear him announce it’s not my fault. I have felt so damn guilty for breathing.
Ah hell, we’ve been anti-Romney long before anyone ever heard of Obama.
Hey, if we hated Mormons so much, why do talk about Beck so often?
This guy stated he posted Romney’s job bill, which means he’s irritated he can’t campaign for Romney here.
Romney is a northeast Republican. Practically a liberal. No offense you northeastern Freepers.
Maybe it IS a spiritual battle. romney has sold his soul for power. WE haven’t. Got nothing to do with religion. Has everything to do with honesty and honor.
“Hey, if we hated Mormons so much, why do talk about Beck so often?”
Where have you been? Beck has been lambasted and pilloried at length around these parts.
“Most other conservative sites that support candidates other than Mitt at least vow to support Mitt if he is the nominee”
Even Perry’s pastor who thinks Catholics, Jews and Mormons are all going to hell says he will support Romney if Romney is the nominee. Go figure.
Did you read George Will’s column today. He takes Mitt apart..has it been posted here? I couldn’t find it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.