Posted on 11/01/2011 1:05:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Free Republic founder Jim Robinson has a message for supporters of Mitt Romney: go away.
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.
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2011/11/01/romney-supporters-banned-free-republic#ixzz1cU7qh32p
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That's an interesting question you ask. As a Cain supporter, I spend almost no time reading Perry threads. Not interested. I do read a lot of Cain threads. Last night I had to quit reading them because the comments were so crude it disgusted me. Interestingly enough, many of the disgusting comments were from...you.
But he talks so PURDY...
Sigh. All that studying he did to get informed, and now that he’s aged he is even easy on the eye, no longer a Ken doll....
what a waste.
Anybody hip deep in snow that can think there’s global warming is at heart an idiot.
Maybe he's just looking for sister wife no. 2.
Sometimes also known as "bitter clingers."
Dude, there are many Perry supporters on this site and even the site owner has said positive things about Perry. It is funny you are worried about ‘potty mouth’ comments and calling people names as I’ve seen you dish it out exponentially more than pretty much anyone here sans the occasional troll.
If they look up ‘pot calling the kettle black’ your handle would be there.
(and I’m sure you’ll whine that was a ‘potty mouth’ comment or calling you names).
No, thanks.
Replace 'fighting' with 'hiding' and I'd agree.
I came here for that fight. All I'm getting lately is drum circle 'consensus'.
"What part of Romney is none of the above do you not understand?"
The exact same part of the Romney supporters FR will convert with a ban-first/reason(maybe)later policy: NONE.
"...why do you think pro-life, pro-family, pro-... Free Republic should support a candidate whose record is completely opposite"
I don't know you, but legend had it that you were a better man than this. I NEVER said you should 'support' the misguided Republicans. I'd simply prefer to convert some of them, rather than harden all of them. But, hey, it's your playground.
I pray, if you are a Christian man, that your seed planting in that regard is not also limited to the choir.
“No speech codes in your house, right?”
I enforce some rules on civility, as does JR.
But if one of my kids comes home from school with an implanted liberal notion, I don’t lock them out.
I engage. Because I sincerely want to change their minds. Threats and cold shoulders are none too effective in that regard.
Reason can often cure the illness JR (apparently) seeks merely to identify.
“Why do you hate private property?”
That is silly. I’m sitting on an hundred acres of it in God’s country right now.
Despite being perhaps the most devout supporter of individual Freedom this site has known, I fully understand JR can ban me too any time he rules it helpful to whatever cause he likes.
It would mean much less to me personally, than it would to Freedom’s agenda.
Actually, other than Willie Green (talk about a hemorrhoid that won’t go away) and some guy named Vlad, most seem to be favoring FR’s stance.
“In politics the middle way is none at all.”
I agree.
To use an old saying once attributed to Voltaire - but most likely originating with Evelyn Beatrice Hall writing under the pseudonym of Stephen G Tallentyre in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), as a summation of Voltaire's beliefs on freedom of thought and expression.[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire ]
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
And then to make my own addendum to it, in Jim's defense:
"I am not however obliged to buy you a megaphone or lend you mine."©Wuli
It’s not uncommon—people often see what they want to see or what they expect to see.
I am not promoting or attacking “the middle way” (do you mean Romney?). I am not promoting or attacking your or other people’s choice. In fact, I have posted comments which will all me (and others) the duty/right/opportunity to DISCUSS their preferences.
Unfortunately, so many seem to default to the simpler (and more satisfying in a less-than-mature way to some) response of name-calling.
That’s all; but it is more than sufficient to have some posters limber up their fingers and pound away on the keyboard. Evidently, they think that is more convincing than reasonable discussion.
Haven’t we beaten this horse to death?
Reporting for duty ...
Would you let business come in and plop billboards all over your hundred acres under the guise of free speech? That is pretty much the same argument here. This is a private website (just like your private property) and the owner of said property can choose the theme he wants for his site. This has nothing to do with free speech.
If you want to read about cars, you don't complain that Architectural Digest doesn't allow articles about cars and is somehow infringing on free speech.
Unfortunately you only agree in theory.
...Yeah that's some "thoughtful commentary"...
ROFLOL!!!
LOL! Narcissistic much?
I don’t disagree. What I don’t understand is why we need to suffer under four more years of Obama to fight the system.
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