Yes you are right
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1341266/posts?page=3045#3045
Nearly every freeper who pushed back hard on that thread ended up zotted
And nearly all those pushing for it and sucking up to the bossman eventually left over Giuliani
Or over Trump
I never really figured it out
The Howlin and Dane and bayourod and hchutch etc posse back then cited several reasons for enforcing the Bush idea of path to citizenship
1) we were racist to oppose it
2) it was a cardinal sin to oppose Bush....hard to believe now isn’t it
3) opposition was about vigilantism on the border
4) the rah rah sychophants that agreed with anything the powers that be here said or they felt was implied period.....a massive suck up
That and the need to belong to the clique here used to be strong ...
Now how many millions have crossed illegally since then and settled here making a conservative electorate that much harder to obtain which illustrates exactly why the left wants borders open
To dilute the nation
One last point
There are literally 20,000 replies worth of threads on all that in the tumult here back then
I prefer not to study it much to be honest because you will find folks you know today saying nasty things then
Some folks here don’t have foundation
I got into it once or twice with the Gang, but I was wise to their tactics by then by watching what they did to others, so I never would rise to the bait. Made them mad, I hope.
Wow, that was a blast from the past! Thanks for finding that reply of mine.
Since that era when FR was part of the RNC/open borders/Bush dynasty, California has become one-party Calizuela, and states that used to be solid GOP like VA, NC, FL and TX are toss ups at best.
Once FL or TX flips to DemSocRat, it’s game over in the electoral college. And FR, during that era, facilitated the demographic shift from GOP to DemSocRat out of its blind loyalty to Bush and open borders. It could have been a force to stop the immivasion, instead it helped facilitate the flood of illegals.
This is the DemSocRat victory strategy, and it’s working perfectly.
Open Borders
+Cloward Piven
+Dunning Kruger
And FR was on the wrong side during those critical years when the demography was flipping the electorate from GOP to DemSocRat.
Telling the truth is not speaking ill of the dead. Your memory serves you correctly. It is crazy how the old orthodoxy, and those who tried to ruthlessly enforce it on this site, has been turned on its head,
I am sorry to hear pf Howlin’s passing. I had wondered what she and the rest of that group were doing these days. I actually came across sinkspur on Twitter. He apparently was thrown off every FR spin-off forum he joined. He still uses his old screen name, however.
He is a hate-filled Democrat now (seriously, he openly avows his support for the Democrat Party), tweeting insults like mad, and ignored by nearly everyone.
It was Borax Queen who changed me into a rabid border nut. Or should I say national sovereignty believer. I had to hear what was really happening from a soldier on the front. Took me a year of conversation to change my mind. But change it I did. She was 100% right. Howlin was wrong.
I remember the controversies.
Heartbreaking.
I do not recall posting.
sometimes we need to step back from internet drama
I certainly have missed all the freepers that have left and been purged.
thank you for the post,
You were ahead of me on the immigration curve. I came around in 2002-2003
Its amusing how so many posters here have no memory or a very short one
Almost no conservative sites today that support amnesty on a large scale
Bush is now viewed as a failure over this issue