Posted on 08/14/2012 1:53:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Well, folks, it happens every four years or so. The presidential election cycle really brings out the RINOS. I have to state and restate FR's positions more and more frequently, because the true blue RINO types simply cannot stand that a conservative site will not support a gun grabbing, abortionist, homosexualist, big government statist.
Last cycle it was Rudy McRomney. Boy, did we ever catch hell for not supporting the big RINOs of the day. Hundreds of true blue RINO supporters fled grassroots conservative FR in disgust when they couldn't get their way and called us every name in the book on the way out, especially, the Rudy cabal.
Where did it get them? The abortionist/homosexualist Rudy didn't get the nomination. We on FR finally decided to support McCain after he was the last RINO standing and he selected Palin as his running mate, but that will not happen this time. And McCain proved not up to the task anyway. He was far too undependable to make it as a conservative, but he was at least pro-life and pro-family and a war hero and that's why I finally relented and gave my reluctant no other choice endorsement.
But Myth Romney is without a doubt the most leftist, flip-flopping, lying, two-faced politician ever to be nominated by the Republicans. We have the most leftist Democrat ever sitting in the White House which ANY Republican should be able to defeat in a Reaganesque landslide, but in their infinite RINO wisdom, the GOPe pushes the most leftist Republican ever.
Why, oh, why would the GOPe risk it all by pushing for and giving the nomination to a man with Romney's abortionist, homosexualist, gun grabbing, big government statist Keynesian record? Do they have a death wish or are they simply trying to move the goal posts even further to the left? Romney is the grandpappy of ObamaCare for crying out loud. He made ObamaCare possible. ObamaCare gave birth to the grassroots tea party movement. The GOPe has done nothing but torpedo the tea party conservatives when they should have embraced us. Sarah Palin was the best thing to happen for the Republicans party since Reagan and the tea party the best thing in a century. Why would they try to kill us off?
We can take a clue from the Rudy McRomney cabal that left FR last time. They exclaimed on the way out that, "The conservatives have held their boot to the GOP's neck for far too long. Never again will guns, abortion, and the gay agenda be important issues for Republicans."
And now the abortionist/homosexualist/shamnesty Rudy McRomney cabal and the anti Palin RINO crowd have teamed up to come after FR again. They couldn't hack it with their wideawakes wankers for Rudy site or their trueblue RINOs for Romney site, so they are now posting their current anti-FR screeds on facebook and on any blog site they possibly can.
Hell hath no fury like a RINO scorned.
One of the RINO's we're talking about is our old friend Luis Gonzalez. He was a big Rudy pusher and would relentlessly trash any conservative who objected. We eventually had to invite him to leave FR and go with the wankers for Rudy. But it turns out he had a sleeper account on FR called "Lancelot Jones."
He recently registered a mole account on FR called "The Duke of Pearls" where he attempted to post the anti-FR screed pasted below. I pulled it and banned his account(s), but it is the one he's now plastering all over the net aided and abetted by his pal and anti-Palin RINO troll, EveningStar.
By the way, it's telling that Gonzalez in his Lancelot Jones mole persona posted the following quips to FR just a couple of days ago:
"If you can't rely on something at the precise moment that you need it the most, because that thing that you need to rely on is only reliable when the circumstances suit it, then get rid of it."
"If the GOP realizes that "purists" will only supprt the GOP when the Party's candidates meet their test, then it may be best to not count on them at all."
"The lesson that the GOP will probably learn from your scenario, is that it needs to jettison purists once and for all."
So, I guess my pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-small government, pro-gun, pro-liberty constitutional stance makes me a "purist" who must be hated and persecuted and run off the net even though my positions on these causes are exactly the same as the official Republican party platform. Very strange.
Here's Gonzalez' latest anti-FR screed that he's trying to make go viral:
Once, a long time ago, if you were an individual seeking reasonable and intelligent political discourse in the Internet, from a right-wing perspective, there were few places as prominent and respected as Jim Robinson’s freerepublic.com. The site counted among its members such luminaries as Tony Snow, Barbara Olsen, and Andrew Breitbar; even Robert Bork was rumored to post in FR.
The site’s users, known as FReepers, were considerable in number, dedicated, and passionate, and Jim Robinson’s conservative brigades were able to launch either spontaneous roadside rallies, or organized nation-wide protests from Texas, to Florida, to Georgia, to Washington DC itself.
- It was a FReeper that ended Dan Rather’s career.
- It was a FReeper that coined the term Sore/Loserman during the Bush/Gore recount wars.
- It was a FReeper that posted the first known report of trouble with the Columbia, as it disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana on re-entry.
- It was a FReeper that photo-shopped the infamous image of John Kerry standing side-by-side with Jane Fonda in an anti Vietnam war rally.
Those were the Golden Days of Free Republic, but the site shines no longer. Mr. Robinson fails to realize that it was individual members of his forum that brought gravitas to the forum, and not the other way around. To be fair, Robinson created what could very well be the best softweare of its kind, but it was the massive interchange of ideas between members, all driven by the e-wave of the late 20th Century, and the animosity toward the Clinton administration that brought the forum into the spotlight.
Alas, Mr. Robinson convinced himself that the message was the medium, when it was the messengers that raised the medium to glory.
Internet blogs are buzzing with reports of a massive crack up in FR, with anti-Romney sentiment standing toe-to-toe with open anti-Mormon bias, FReepers are abandoning Jim Robinson’s burning ship in droves, populating sites like www.gopbriefingroom.com to discuss the chaotic status of Free Republic.
In facebook, exiled FReepers stand amazed at the realization that Free Republic and Daily KOS, bitter Internet blog political ideology enemies, are actually supporting the same candidate for the Presidency this cycle, as FReepers openly support the idea if an Obama win, as such a victory will “teach the GOP a lesson”.
This post from FReeper “Leep”
"Crash and burn America. Hopefully, we can rebuild in 10 or 20 or 50 years…?" The signs are visible to even the naked eye.
Check this statement by the site’s founder, Jim Robinson, just a few nights ago:
“Lastly, we’re having a bit of changeover on our moderator staff. At least two moderators resigned this afternoon after I flatly refused to rein in a so-called anti-Mormon “bigot” on FR.” In today’s Free Republic, no one will be critical of anti-Mormon statements. Jim Robinson once again:
“This website considers the Mormon religion as false doctrine. Period.” It’s nearly impossible to cross the line on criticism of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism at a site where the proprietor dismisses the entire religion as a “false doctrine”.
Robinson, in his refusal to support the GOP ticket seems to understand that he has become a minority within a minority, within a diminishing number of supporters, as he says:
"I doubt there are 10% of the FReepers in agreement with me on this." Ten percent of a rapidly diminishing number of posting members could spell financial troubles for Robinson, as some of the site’s most steadfast financial supporters quietly melt into the night.
Then again, even as Free Republic fades into irrelevance, Robinson’s legacy lives on in an unintended cottage industry of forums offering refuge to FReepers wishing to distance themselves from Robinson.
As one of the members of The Briefing Room quipped recently:
"The FR meltdown is good for business, people are looking for a sanctuary, and a place where sanity still reigns. Our membership rolls are increasing hourly, and they all come to ask the same question…”what in the world happened to Free Republic?”
Sad thing, that what was once such a great notion will crumble and fall under the weight of such a negative and destructive actions, and that in the end, the great things accomplished by the many, will be dragged down into the mud by the few.
As long as you have been here, I am saddened that you would even ask that!! There are no words!
That's not not a bad idea...start a write in Ryan campaign.
“God is with you”, Ok how do you reconcile that with the fact Romney is pro abortion and homosexual agenda?
When you say Mormons love God as much of the rest of us, which god are you referring to as they teach multiple gods.
*shaking head*
My money's on Jim Robinson not giving a particular damn about what gopbriefingroom thinks about the status of FR, and I have a hunch the 300 or so (that's my educated guess) posting/occasionally posting FReepers who get that voting for a liberal always guarantees a bad outcome regardless of party, don't give a particular damn either.
It is mind boggling to watch this transpire -- conservatives are voting for a liberal in the hopes that once in office, he will be less liberal because he's a Republican. They are terrified that the same congress they think will "keep Romney's feet to the fire" for eight years, would be too chicken-hearted, even with fresh faces added to their numbers, to oppose an unpopular Obama for the next four.
Vote for a liberal, vote fur guaranteed regret. So it will be with millions of conservatives who knew better, should Romney get a majority.
Pray for a plurality and vote for a plurality.
“These fingers are obsessed with you and FR, Jim””
That would be a very creepy thing to say.
This obviously isn't 0bama/Biden, and I don't see it as W/Cheney. Clinton/Gore? No, Algore was completely useless even then. Nixon/Agnew? Ryan doesn't fit the role. Roosevelt/Truman?
What influence Ryan does have regarding policy is not an idle question, it will be absolutely determinative for a large number of conservative voters, myself for one. We can discuss it somewhere else - this thread is a little raw for this sort of thing, but it's what we used to do on FR all the time. Isn't it? :-)
And no matter what Romney is saying, his advisers have said he is not going to repeal ObamaCare.
I keep explaining over and over that you can vote for whomever you please. I’m not urging anyone to do what I’m doing. Personally, I cannot vote for an abortionist or a homosexualist or a gun grabber or a big government socialist or a liberal progressive statist. Romney is all of those things rolled into one. I’m just one man, with one vote. I pray he doesn’t need it because he’s not going to get it.
But I do strongly urge all conservatives and grassroots tea party folks to turn out and vote. Vote straight conservative if you can. We need conservative executives and conservative controlled legislative bodies elected into every elective office in every state and locale all across this great land so we can wrest control and power away from the socialists and return it to the states and we the people as the constitution clearly states.
And with the conservative majorities, I’d like to see a whole lot of impeaching, recalling, rescinding, overturning, abolishing, slashing, closing down, cutting, etc, etc, etc. We don’t need any new healthcare programs, welfare programs, safety nets, or new taxes, we just need to abolish and close down a whole lot of old failed socialist departments, agencies, programs, regulations and policies.
Set our people free to produce an prosper, an let the free economy soar!!
“And I’m ready to pack my bags for Texas the moment they decide to secede from the United Socialist States of America!! God, bless TEXAS!!”
You can say ‘Y’all can go to hell! I’m going to Texas!”
I would say it, but I’m already in Texas.
why? because you are an idiot!!!! I can't judge a person on this earth and neither can you, if you follow God! Only God decides who gets into Heaven!! I am not worried about who gets in, are you? If you are then you have a problem!!
What I find intolerable are people speaking for God!!!
That would be you, but you have already shown you are an idiot so have no desire to post to you anymore!!!So buh bye!
You can never go home. Things change irretrievably, and the past may cause longing, but reconstructing it is never possible.
I think that if the FReepers who left wanted to leave because of some perceived flaw in Jim’s site, then they’re certainly welcome to go. However I find their gossip and lies about Free Republic to be repugnant in the extreme, and that was what I meant by my post.
Their nattering on to anyone who will listen about how horrible we are here doesn’t do anybody any good at all, including the people whose stated goal is the destruction of this site. TBLers, you know who you are.
I like Ryan and wish he was at the top of the ticket, but what you state is true. Ryan has already folded his tent and is now flying Romney’s flag. As VP, he has no choice but to defend the company line. And the company is, the GOPe.
That’s pretty funny. I actually post with that fellow EveningStar on a different forum. I thought he spent his time only trolling that forum, I did not know he got around as far as Free Republic. His posts are usually of the passive aggressive variety.
I will.
All depends if we have the numbers on our sides. The liberals whacked Bush on Social Security. We need to do the same on our issues.
Actually, they used to run for two weeks or so. And someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that the record really is one week.
I don’t blame Jim or FR for their going on for weeks. I think a lot of the blame rests on the O’Bambi economy, the 17% unemployment rate, and the doubling of grocery and fuel prices.
Another thing that didn’t help was the propaganda spread on the site by “anti-FReepers” and “anti-Jimmers” (their own terms, not ours) about Jim’s being “greedy” and not really needing the amount of money at which he sets his (private, for-profit, donation-funded) company’s FReepathon goals.
A LOT of gullible FReepers bought into all that nonsense.
THANK YOU!
I remember them being shorter, but never THAT short.
Luis Gonzalez?
What was his moniker? Was it his name?
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