Is Free Republic too "Republican?"
Jim Robinson
Posted on 06/13/2003 3:55 AM CDT by Jim Robinson
Is Free Republic too "Republican?" I've been receiving a lot of complaints lately that FR is not really conservative, it's Republican. Is that a bad thing?
When I started FR (see the wayback machine) I don't think I even used the labels conservative or Republican. But, even though I was a registered Democrat at the time (I registered when I was very young), I was definitely anti-Democrat. And definitely anti-big government, anti-government corruption, anti-government abuse, anti-liberalism, etc. And I still am.
When I was 15, I actually was pro-Libertarian and debated for the Libertarian candidate for President(Ed Clarke) that year(1980) in High School, because I thought his ideas on drug legalization were so cool.
Todd, when a person is 14 it isn't the "truth", but idealism, IMHO.
But what the hey when you find someone who shares your malcontentism, you have to proclaim it to the highest mountains.