I was called every name in the sun for criticizing FReepers saying vote for Obama over Romney! Odd their posts disappeared but their accounts exist.
And many people who are in the know acknowledge there are democrat operatives working here.
This isn't about Mitt Romney. I never donated or voted for him. This is about intimidation and threats that go unpunished, which have literally scared people from posting and they've left.
John McCain was bad, but then we had the Tea Party and 2010 and this site was thriving, why? People weren't zotted for voting for McCain over Obama even though we all despised McCain.
I assume I'll be the next head on the chopping block, but I've been called every name under the sun including a democrat, a libertarian, a communist and I signed up 4 days after 9/11... Was there at a Free Republic Support our Troops event in 2003 that drew 5000 patriots to downtown Chicago making Occupy Wall Street look like a picnic.
Now people feel like they are living in the 3rd Episode of Star Wars...
Five reasons:
1) Sarah Palin (the biggest reason by far),
2) McCain at least had some redeeming features.
3) Romney is an absolute lemon who takes key GOP campaign issues off the table, and
4) The GOP-E in 2010 showed that for them, party unity only applies when the RINO wins. So calls from the GOP-E for party unity now just don't cut it the way they used to, and
5) Romney's scorched-earth approach to winning the primary makes it all that much harder to reconcile afterwards.
The GOP-E made this bed, not conservatives. We've shown we'll go along. But our eyes have been opened over the last two election cycles (2010 and now). The GOP-E won't be pulling the wool over our eyes any longer.