I'm greatly relieved but angry also that during those months many long time members either left or were zotted. Altura was one, a regular on the Sunday Morning thread. Others were coming close to going elsewhere or just not coming back to FR. The vitriol coming their way just too much to understand and drove many, including myself, to question whether to stay here. I was within a breath of pulling my monthly if not departing entirely.
FYI Ping
BUT, realists see a true difference in Obama and the other liberal. The key is voting in more conservative and tea party folks in the House and Senate. Freerepublic, because of the wide placement of members across the nation IS a force to be reckoned in the election of House and Senate candidates of a tea partyish mind. If Freerepublic crumbles under the weight of in fighting, then the hoped for conservative groundswell does not happen and little barry bastard commie rules unobstructed 'til the end!
The extreme voices are not numerous, on either side of this debate. Albeit they are all freepers, they are not the majority of active freepers. Jim's move to vote for while not endorsing Romney is an indication that Freeper action will be marshaled to sweep conservatives into down ticket positions because the vote suppression effect of stinky infighting will be lessened!
There will still be a small minority who will make religious accusations, trying to speak for God telling fellow freepers that they are spitting in God's eye by voting for Romney. They will become less effective in so doing. So eventually they may realize that the opportunities to expose Mormonism will increase if Romney is elected, rather than being lost int he defeat of the liberal Mormon as the nation crumbles before our eyes.
If I had to guess, after reading Jim Robinson's work for more than a decade at this point, I'd guess he made this move to halt the destruction of freeperdom, because Freeperdom is truly a force which reaches into the down-ticket ballot spots even more than it influences the presidential selection. ... And that is the ONLY hope, regardless of which of the liberals is elected!
If we allow the lesser of two liberals to be the enemy of the more conservative we could eventually elect if America stumbles on without Obama ending her, then we have truly enabled our own irrelevance.
LOTS left, altura, maggief and and so many more. Some are still here but they rarely post and their enthusiasm is not the same. :( Sometimes in life what was done, cannot be UNdone. I wonder if this is one of those times. I hope not.