Posted on 10/31/2011 8:11:08 PM PDT by Fred
In an email to POLITICO this afternoon, Robinson admitted that the site routinely blocks Romney supporters from posting -- and offered no apologies for the practice:
Free Republic is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government, pro-constitution, pro-liberty site. Governor Romney is none of the above. His record is that of an abortionist, gay rights pushing, gun grabbing, global warming advocating, big government, mandate loving, constitution trampling, flip-flopping liberal progressive with no core values. That and the fact that he is the chief architect and advocate for ObamaCare disqualifies him for any consideration whatsoever on Free Republic as a potential nominee for the presidency. ...
Liberal progressives and other enemies of the constitution and or of Liberty itself are not welcome here. Accounts registered here by liberal progressives and other assorted trolls, malcontents and disruptors will be removed on sight or at the convenience of the site administrators.
The site came under fire from Ross Abraham, a blogger for Mitt Romney Central, who wrote today that Free Republic is just one of several sites (along with RedState, he says) on the right-wing Internet that are pretty much off limits to Mitt Romney's supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The OP was a surprise to me! I had no idea! Romney is not on my list of viable candidates in any event. Never has been.
I’ll have to side with FR on this one.
I lean Mitt and say so often here. He’s the least less-palatable and embarrassing at this point. No particular repercussions to date. There shouldn’t be.
Well, there was that idiot mod who changed the title of my “Was Perry drunk in New Hampshire” thread this morning but I understand. There are morons everywhere so finding one running the show here is not a huge surprise.
But, none of it rises to the level of a temper-tantrum snit fit from any Romney-ite. That’s just bitter whining that no one needs or buys into.
When a “Blog Pimp” tries to hijack a thread for propaganda purposes, the thread will probably be pulled, i.e. THE ZOT!!.
So long as the debate is rational and cordial, a thread will not be pulled because of a liberals political positions.
In the Main Stream Media (Fox excepted) there is great censorship of conservative views. The Main Stream Media rarely lies,(Dan Rather excepted) but will take selected stories and edit them to their liking and it turns into a very left wing presentation. The also censor news that shows the left wing in an unfavorable light.
Free Republic is much more open to opposing opinions than the Main Stream Media.
Who cares about this Robinson guy, what does Jim Thompson think?
I want JimRob to “admit” that sometimes his site double posts me and it’s not my fault.
time for somebody to appoint themselves leader of the anti-Romney grassroots and sign people up for activity in IA and SC.
I am unavailable. Fred?
The comments on Politico are interesting and insightful. For example, here's Juliet Giles telling us what's on her mind:
this group peopel dont like mormons romeny also dont like wealthy romeny romeny dont buy the whte house ur issue not very good here; all along ur obma care link to romeny care and etc. we all put back rikc perry now; no to cian -sexual harassment either.
JIm Thompson was banned for being too liberal. ;-)
You know, that animation would be funnier if the witch turned out to be Hillary.
“The right to free speech means that a man has the right to express his ideas without danger of suppression, interference or punitive action by the government. It does not mean that others must provide him with a lecture hall, a radio station, or a printing press through which to express his ideas.”-Ayn Rand
And, there’s nothing wrong with Mayor McCheese.
He makes a nice burger and I can’t fault his management style.
He’s sort of like Cain in many respects. Hmmmmm......
Well it aint like he hasn’t gone on a ban spree before. Gays, Giuliani supporters, Romney, and I’d bet Perry supporters will soon be in the cross hairs. In short, anyone he doesn’t agree with.
At least the published the mission statement as is. I would have expected them to paraphrase it in some nasty way.
Then again, Mr. Smith probably only gave himself two or three minutes to write the story before giving himself the rest of the morning off for a well-deserved Starbucks recharge.
Mitt Romney also supports homo activists in their war against the Boy Scouts.
Starting during the Clinton Administration (does the name Roberta Achtenberg ring a bell?) the Boy Scouts came under relentless fire by the Democrats and their newsrooms for rejecting the idea that they, the Boy Scouts of America, should welcome homosexual scout leaders into the organization and let them take little boys off into the woods. Boy Scouts leaders didn’t think this was such a good idea. Naturally, Massachusetts Mittens sided with the homo activists.
Below are a couple of columns from 10 and 12 years ago about the Boy Scouts being turned away by Mitt Romney and the Olympics Committee for volunteer work on the Salt Lake Olympics. The Boy Scouts had been very active and high profile at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and were looking forward to participating once again. But the Boy Scouts had just won an important Supreme Court case (in June 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that the BSA was a private organization that could choose whoever they wanted as scout leaders and could therefore reject sodomites) and the Democrats/homos were still mighty ticked off about it. Massachusetts Mittens could always be counted on to pander to homo activists, of course, so he gladly came up with a lame lie of an excuse for turning the Boy Scouts away from the Salt Lake Olympics. The Boy Scouts’ disappointment was palpable, and Mitt Romney never returned their calls.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/15/214301.shtml
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/7/135258.shtml
Just say no to Mitt.
So what’s the problem. FR is built and supported by the Robinson’s and by voluntary donations that presumably will cease when those donating no longer feel the site is worthy of their support.
So where is their standing to “complain” that RINO-licking is somewhere between discouraged and prohibited here? Are they taking their belief in collectivism so far as to say that if you build a website, you’re not allowed to determine what goes on there? Aren’t these the same nanny-statists that always want to hold people responsible for what third parties do on their premises??
Yes, yes but what does Jim Thompson think abut Romney?
Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Zerobama, Ma(zero), P0l P0t, R0mney, Castr0. The know-it-all tyrants deserve a dose of their own medicine care plan.
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