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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:14 AM
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I LOVE Free Republic
when they're in the middle of a meltdown. I love the smell of freeper flop sweat. It smells like... well, you know.

I'll never forget the through the roof meltdown that freeperville went through on election night in 2006. This looks to be even more over the top.

Can't wait to read rimjob's response to Obama winning and dem increases in Congress.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:16 AM
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1. Why Don't You Create A Nom De Plume And Post The Latest Poll Showing McManiac Down By Nine
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:18 AM
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2. It's been posted over there
at least twice. the reaction to that poll is what inspired my post. And I do have a nom de plume over there. I'm trying not to get kicked off until election night.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:21 AM
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4. I Hope You Aren't Going To Pull A SeventhSon...
I'm not too big for a little schadenfreude but what he did was just wrong; telling people they should die of AIDS...

I know you would never do that...He was a lunatic...
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:25 AM
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8. yikes. no way. I don't wish that shit on anyone.
Don't know what I'll write but it won't be in that vein.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:34 AM
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15. You Must Have Been Fairly New
SeventhSon was a provacteur...He would post the most outrageous stuff and try to get DUers to agree with him and make us all look as crazy as he was...My favorite(sic) Seventh Son post was when he said General Clark was part of a conspiracy to poison Haitian men and give them "man breasts"...


He "came out" on Election Eve and said what a great man Bush* was, how he "played us all that time", and that we were a bunch of loathsome losers...He also PMed some members and told them they should die of AIDS...


As a point of privilege I can honestly say I never trusted him...
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:31 AM
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23. A lot of people here were taken in by him,
Edited on Wed Sep-24-08 08:32 AM by QC
including some of the most self-important DU celebs.

It was hysterical to watch--he would spin his bizarre conspiracy theories and people here would congratulate him on the quality of his "research" and attack any who pointed out that he was obviously playing games.

And yes, the Haitian mantit episode was possibly the greatest DU moment ever!
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:37 AM
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25. Ideologues And True Believers Frighten Me
"It was hysterical to watch--he would spin his bizarre conspiracy theories and people here would congratulate him on the quality of his "research" and attack any who pointed out that he was obviously playing games."
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:05 AM
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33. i remember that kook!!!
:rofl:

he'd fit right in with perry logan and the crew...
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:28 AM
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13. Heh, heh, heh....
Me, too. I have an old, old Freeper account. I'd forgotten the password, but recently figured it out. On election eve, they're going to have a long-time registered user promoting Bob Barr for president.


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Efilroft Sul Donating Member (827 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:25 AM
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20. Damn, I never knew you to be so evil.
Edited on Wed Sep-24-08 08:27 AM by Efilroft Sul
I'll be looking for that post on FR.
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:02 AM
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31. Any ideas are welcome
Because I know you have plenty of evil ideas.


:evilgrin:
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:25 AM
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6. They've already got a thread there concerning that.
Yes, I check Free Republic all the time,it's interesting to watch.What is interesting about polls is that they blame "dem controlled polls" the same way some DUers blame "GOP controlled polls" whenever they don't favor us.The same handringing excuses exist on both sides. I happen to believe we've reached a positive turning point here and that Obama's number will not go down from this point,but I do think it's interesting that both DU and Free Republic tend to expend a lot of energy blaming the messenger.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:27 AM
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10. Yeah
I don't like Luddites , even if they have a (D) after their name...

The polls are what they are...People are free to spin the results but if there are errors I think its prudent to attribute the errors to incompetence and not malice until proven otherwise...


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RichGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:42 AM
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18. To be fair...the similarities don't end there.
I'm sure they enjoy our meltdowns...and the flop sweat that smells like brie and arugula. Like...BILL CLINTON LIKES MCCAIN...IT'S OVER, HE'S EVIL, HE'S TRYING TO LOSE THE ELECTION.....
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:01 AM
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30. Agreed. nt
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Submariner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:19 AM
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3. Let us hope Bush is the last republitard president EVER
Let's make this socialist republicanism the end of their party, and watch the Freepers throw themselves off a cliff. We already know the freeper ilk are fearful and afraid, let's play on their wimpiness.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:22 AM
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5. I want them to spend the rest of their lives licking their wounds vowing
to NEVER VOTE AGAIN!!!
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RichGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:28 AM
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12. Let's hope he's the last neo con president.
The two party system works when it's not infested with corruption
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RichGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:25 AM
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7. Since we are walking down...
Edited on Wed Sep-24-08 07:29 AM by RichGirl
...Freeper meltdown memory lane...a snap shot of Harriet Meirs comes to mind. You have to give them credit though, they knew instantly that she was all wrong. They are losing their touch. It's taking them forever to figure out that Palin is an air head!

Another meltdown...when McCain became their nominee. They should have had a clue then.

But let's not be smug. They are much better at hubris. I think one of the reasons Obama is doing so well is because even republicans are getting it.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:27 AM
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11. The meltdown of all meltdowns on FR was the Terry Shiavo (sp)
controversy. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen.
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msanthrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:34 AM
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24. Oh, yeah....I suspect the few sane Freepers still posting there
at that time quietly left to become 'Libertarians' or 'Independents.'

But nothing less that having Terry Schiavo given to her parents and installed in a Medujorge-like shrine (with a gift shop!) would have satisfied those whackjobs....
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 09:03 AM
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32. Lol! Perfect description! nt
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:40 AM
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17. Airhead? You're being way to kind.
:)
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:02 AM
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39. Palin is an airhead?

Heckfire, a goodly 25% of them are still having trouble figuring out that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. I love the birth certificate threads there. All that obsessive paranoid energy turned on itself. Ever since the Texas Air National Guard memo, they think that every political question will be resolved by their l33t dokument ekzaminer skillz.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:26 AM
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9. A McCain loss will just make those no-neck droolers bemoan the fact that
their candidate wasn't "conservative" enough and they will retreat into their John Birch Society marginalized madness......
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RichGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:39 AM
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16. I hope what the realize is...
...that being conservative isn't enough. The president has to be smart too! Bush, McCain, Palin...all low intelligence. People who aren't very smart make great puppets.

So freeper lurkers...take notice of the people you want put into high positions and why...because they're great to have a beer with, they're hockey mom, they have endless war stories...they are JUST LIKE YOU. (You know, I'm pretty smart, but I want someone who is WAY smarter than me.) Pick the guy/girl who knows more than you do, that you have to listen to very carefully to understand, the one who reads books, non fiction, instead of watching "Two and Half Men", the one who got all A's in school and went to a great college. Pretend you are hiring a brain surgeon.
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:20 AM
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19. I REALLY don't think I could have a beer
with any of THOSE idiots, and I've enjoyed having a beer with a few idiots in my lifetime, but THEM - NO WAY, NO HOW!!!
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donco Donating Member (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:31 AM
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22. Pretend you are hiring a BRAIN SURGEON?
:headbang:
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RichGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:39 AM
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26. Right!
If you were getting brain surgery would you want a doctor who didn't do well in school, or went to a low tier medical school, but gee, he such a nice guy. Would you want someone who loses his temper if a nurse drops an instrument or keeps his cool. When Palin didn't know what the Bush doctrine was, the response was...well most people don't know what it is. Imagine saying, my doctor doesn't know what a thyroid gland is, but most people don't. I'm just saying, the presidency is the most critical job in the world and should be treated that way. Not like average is good enough.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:04 AM
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40. They were so sold on Fred Thompson that they pretty much purged everyone else during the primaries
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Curtland1015 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 07:29 AM
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14. Ah Freepers... they give us so much joy.
I can't WAIT to nail their asses to the wall! Woo!
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:30 AM
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21. I'm a bettin' the Freepers put some of those Shelters they built for Y2K to use!
Dozens of 'em will go into their shelters to try and wait out an Obama administration.

They ahve the food, the guns, the ammo and the shelters. They can make it four years!

:sarcasm:
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:41 AM
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27. Why go there? It's crazy enough here!
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:
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Tarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:43 AM
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28. Hell, who DOESN'T have a clandestine FR acount? :)
Wonder if ol RimJob there realizes that easily 1/4 or so of his vaunted userbase are there just in a "keep tabs on the enemy" manner.

I must say though, it is easy to blend in with the crowd and post along side them. Take any topic, think about the dumbest crowd-pleasing thing to say about it, and you're flooded with a bunch of "you're right" and "x2" simpletons.

The Free Republic is truly where intelligence and common sense go to die.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 02:31 PM
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34. (raises hand) why soil myself?
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Tarc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 08:55 AM
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35. Its fun. Think of it like you're an actor playing a role.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 08:57 AM
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37. I don't act, I am myself, and I'd rather get needles in my feet
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faithfulcitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 08:59 AM
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38. Maybe it's just me, but the format of the site is so hard to read. Who replied to who and what not.
DU is so much more dynamic.
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DeeDeeNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:51 AM
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29. I don't have the stomach to venture into that slimy pit
So I'm glad you're able to do it and report back!
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 08:57 AM
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36. Going to Free Republic is like going to a sewerage disposal plant
I just don't understand some people.:eyes:
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