Romney Supporters Banned From Free Republic

[brooklynite]

from link:http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2011/11/01/romney-supporters-banned-free-republic|Fox Nation]:

Free Republic founder Jim Robinson has a message for supporters of Mitt Romney: go away.

In an email to POLITICO this afternoon, Robinson admitted that the site routinely blocks Romney supporters from posting -- and offered no apologies for the practice:

Free Republic is a pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government, pro-constitution, pro-liberty site. Governor Romney is none of the above. His record is that of an abortionist, gay rights pushing, gun grabbing, global warming advocating, big government, mandate loving, constitution trampling, flip-flopping liberal progressive with no core values. That and the fact that he is the chief architect and advocate for ObamaCare disqualifies him for any consideration whatsoever on Free Republic as a potential nominee for the presidency.

On the one hand, it's his toy, and he can play with whomever he wants. On the other hand, its a good idea to balance the crazy with the merely deluded from time to time...

[Archae]

1. If Romney is the nominee...

I can't wait to see the :nuke: there. :rofl:

[redqueen]

5. It'll become Ron Paul central I bet.

Ugh, the amount of idiots that fall for that 'libertarian' BS.

[Renew Deal]

9. They are more constitution party types over there.

[Ter]

39. No way

Ron Paul is very disliked on FR. FR is a neo-con site. Paul is a neo-libertarian. Paleo-cons aren't liked their much either, such as Pat Buchanan.

[Erose999]

88. They come for the legalized weed. They stay for the snake oil medicines and botulism outbreaks.

[fishwax]

6. lol -- indeed

:rofl:

[Orsino]

14. WHEN Romney is the nom'nee,

True Believers are not in charge of the Republican Party. GOP leaders don't have even as much principle as you'll find inside a freeper.

[TheWraith]

17. I'm not so sure he's "inevitable."

The fact is the base just despises his ass. And in the end the head honchos may decide to let the base have their candidate of choice if they think they're going to lose anyway, which is likely.

[NYC Liberal]

25. Actually if they think they'll lose, they'll want a dull, forgettable candidate

who won't rock the boat.

A right-wing nut job like Michelle Bachmann could not only lose but also do enough damage to hurt the GOP in 2014 and 2016.

[flamingdem]

40. Think about it - they cannot let Perry or Cain

embarrass the party further..

but I hope they go for it

CAIN / PERRY 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gamow]

22. Didn't he do the same for McCain supporters 3 years ago? nt

[CoffeeCat]

41. Of course Romney will be the nominee...

The elites and the neocons have all ready decided. Perry has been
beaten down by the media, and now it's Cain's turn.

Romney will secure the nomination.

Wow, what interesting political times we live in. It won't be long before the
left and the right have no choice but to hold their noses, then hold hands
and fight the corporate goons who have overtaken our government.

[MrsCorleone]

75. Speaking of Mitt "Corporations are People, My Friends" Romney, how come he's avoiding

the media circuit, particularly on the Sunday morning shows? The MSM is all about Cain this and Perry that. They are irrelevant. Why does Mitt get so little scrutiny?

[Berlin Expat]

87. If Romney is the nominee

If Romney is the nominee, I think I can safely say that a majority of the Freepers (if not the GOP base) will stay home on Election Day, 2012.

Free Republic is little more than an echo chamber for pathologically disturbed individuals, evangelical "Christian" fanatics who fervently wish nothing more than to mass murder their sociocultural and religious opponents in the name of Jesus, supplemented with an assortment of would-be totalitarians who want to suppress anyone who dares to disagree with their worldview, and outright psychopathic misfits who have no place in a civilized society. To be fair, there are a tiny handful of FR posters who are quite reasonable, but they are an insignificant minority.

I think that should former Governor Romney capture the GOP nomination, a lot of heads over in Freeperville will explode. I wouldn't even be surprised if Mr. Robinson spearheaded a third party get-out-the-vote or even a write-in campaign.

Of course, the delicious irony is that by doing so, they would be entirely responsible for President Obama securing a second term. And then, of course, there will be much rending of garments, and gnashing of teeth and general wailing.

On the other hand, there is an off-chance that if President Obama is re-elected, some of the more.....unbalanced, shall we say.....Freepers may choose to express their displeasure in a more confrontational, violent fashion. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that came to pass. Like I said, there's a lot of out and out psychotic individuals posting over there who should be (and hopefully are) on an F.B.I. watchlist.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI

[snooper2]

68. holy shit I haven't heard that in forever LOL, reminds me of when singers could actually sing

Now we get teh stupid that is Rebecca Black :eyes:

[Warren DeMontague]

85. I wasn't putting it out there as a quality example of the genre, but glad u liked it

when I think of "singers who can actually sing" I think, like, Natalie Merchant--- but of course YMMV.

:hi:

[Leopolds Ghost]

72. And that hero is...

Up where the lightning splits the sea, I could swear there was someone somewhere watching me!

Likes to watch

Above the storm and the flood... I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood!

http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/7/10539/z10539827N,Mark-Block-palacy-papierosa-w-spocie-wyborczym-Hermana.jpg Freeper

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2228743

[TheWraith]

3. Party time!

I'm loving the chaos. But honestly this is good for us... the crazier right they go, the better.

[MADem]

4. Who are they counting on to be the nominee?

What'll they do if it's Mittsy-Shittsy?

[Renew Deal]

7. Can we set up a forum on DU for Romney supporters?

:evilgrin:

[lindysalsagal]

33. Where do I sign up?

:evilgrin:

[BeHereNow]

8. Oh Jim, going public with stupidity is just not attractive.

It is astonishing what people put forth in public these days.
"Here, look over here! I am an idiot and proud of it!"

BHN:rofl:

[TwilightGardener]

10. They had their troubles with McCrazy in 2008--they sure didn't like him.

I don't think his supporters were banned, though--must be the Mormonism.

[Vincardog]

11. Mittens is all they have got until Jeb Bush jumps in o save the day

[progressoid]

12. abortionist, gay rights pushing, gun grabbing, global warming advocating, big government...

"...abortionist, gay rights pushing, gun grabbing, global warming advocating, big government, mandate loving, constitution trampling, flip-flopping liberal progressive..."

Maybe he should run as a Democrat?

[kenfrequed]

53. Hmmph

He isn't any of those things really. It is just that the rest of the republican party is so fucking nuts that he almost looks moderate by modern standards.

The only republicans I will ever vote for are: Zombie Lincoln, Zombie Teddy Roosevelt, or Zombie Eisenhower.

[Seedersandleechers]

82. If they were smart they

would support Buddy Roemer.

[Mopar151]

84. True Dat!

Buddy boy has some good points, and seems to be a polite, well spoken canidate - unlike the "frontrunners", a pitiful lot at best.
I don't want ol' Buddy to be prez - some of his policy positions are pretty stone age - but i get the feeling that he and the Prez could have a civil, substantive discussion about real issues.

[BulletproofLandshark]

13. I guess they aren't so "Free" after all. n/t

[lindysalsagal]

34. Didn't you know: "Freedom isn't free."

SOMEBODY has to pay for government to run! Pay your damn taxes!:rofl:

[pipi_k]

58. Just another word for nothing left to lose.... n/t

:+

[lpbk2713]

15. So now I want Mittens to get the GOP nom.

If for no other reason than it will piss off RimJob and the Freepville village idiots.

[ellisonz]

89. Mittens! Mittens! Mittens!

;-)

[Arkansas Granny]

16. IIRC, Jimbo wasn't a fan of GWB, at least, not until he won the nomination.

I can't recall if he banned people for supporting Bush, but I do remember a house cleaning of Giuliani supporters in 2008.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. schadenfreu . . . something.

I love the stink of conservatives pissing on each other. It smells like . . . . . VICTORY.

[monmouth]

19. Geez, the next freepathon will take months. He's rid himself of some

large donatees to that site.

[Old and In the Way]

20. I wonder who Chump Central is endorsing?

JimRob was a Palin fanboy. I guess he must be Bachmann? Not sure anyone can meet his criteria, but she or Santorum would be the closest.

[jimlup]

21. Further proof that the Reptilians have slipped into an extremist coma /nt

[NYC Liberal]

23. "global warming advocating" - He advocates for global warming? What?

:wtf:

[DisgustipatedinCA]

24. God, these people are stupid. Their only chance just got banned.

I think Romney could give Obama a real run for his money; maybe we'll never find out now.

Are they recycling Bachmann next? Or is it Gingrich's turn in the spotlight? Or will Santorum finally, uh, froth up to the top?

[Cali_Democrat]

26. Oh shit!

:popcorn:

[Enrique]

27. in a way it's admirable

contrast to all these right-wingers who have been saying all this crazy shit about Obamacare, and now when they guy who invented Obamacare wins the nomination, they're all going to support him. Total hypocrisy. Yeah, it's going to give their party their best shot at the White House but it's total hypocrisy.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

28. Hopefully, many right wing nuts harbor the same idea.....

Maybe we'll have a chance in '12.

[Jack Rabbit]

29. Does JimRob have any idea what he will do when Romney wins the GOP nomination?

:popcorn:

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. If Romney becomes the nominee...

Fireworks.

[Major Hogwash]

31. Proving once again, Romney will be their candidate.

Cain just bitchslapped a woman on teevee, and Perry took a piss in public.
Michelle Bachmann flew home to her mother last night -- on her broom!!
They're finished.

Santorum, Huntsman, and Gingrich formed a law firm partnership.
Ron Paul went back to the home.

While Romney simply bores them to death, the others immolated upon the altar of egotism right on public television.

[ThoughtCriminal]

32. Eventually it will be down to eight guys and 640 sock puppets

screaming at each other.

[JNelson6563]

55. lol Kinda like DU on some days.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

35. So, they are starting to eat their own. Just like us ...

... during the 2008 primary season. It wasn't pretty here, but it was interesting.

[Douglas Carpenter]

36. knr

[RainDog]

37. this is why republicans will lose

if they nominate a nutcase social conservative rightie, they lose moderates - and if they put a nutcase social conservative rightie in the v.p. slot to appease the right-wing extremists, they will lose moderates.

with the extremists coming out this strongly against the most-likely-to-be nominated candidate, they'll suppress republican votes. of course, they're trying to make it more difficult for democratic-leaning factions to vote, but they are going up against people who are more likely to pay attention to politics anyway.

it seems to me that President Obama might be smart to appeal to those who might be dissuaded from going to the polls by paying attention to some of the issues from the base - b/c OWS and polls concerning this issue show that the majority of Americans are not what is now considered "moderate" on a host of issues.

which means "moderate" is the not-nutty right, in terms of how far to the right a national candidate can be to motivate people to go vote, it would seem to me. this doesn't apply for House pols b/c gerrymandering has created so many openings for the nutcases - and we see the legislation they are focusing on, the social engineering they are trying to force on the American people, is also the minority position, nationally.

Or at least that's how it looks to me at this time.

[stevenleser]

42. I agree. I don't see a coalition of 50.1% or more of the country getting behind any of these folks

None of these folks is as "strong" a candidate as McCain was in 2008. The country may not be thrilled with Obama, but I don't see them handing the keys to any one of these people.

[Initech]

38. Why I do believe this is what's known as a Koch block.

[Motown_Johnny]

43. so everyone with a FR troll account needs to push a 3rd party run, once Mitt wins

Right?


Ya think Bachmann is crazy enough to try it?

[Aerows]

44. At this point

I'm wondering if even Mitt Romney's wife would vote for him. The only person that thinks he's ready to be President is Mitt Romney. Everyone else disagrees.

[flvegan]

45. Hm. Can you program BASIC to sort through shitdiots posting Romney crap on that site?

The TRS-80 running that shithole needs to know.

[Aerows]

46. LMFAO!

Good one. It is pretty much a candidate for worst site ever.

[HughBeaumont]

70. I'll IRC the early 90s and find out.

:rofl:

[OmahaBlueDog]

47. Now it's in the open. The GOP wants anyone other than Romney.

However, this would kind of be like Skinner having banned Hillary Clinton supporters in 2008.

......oh, wait....he kinda......oh, never mind



(I kid, of course)

[Monk06]

48. Rim Job sends an email to Politico banning Romney supporters from FreakRepublic, in the middle

of a funding drive. I guess he's counting on Cain supporters
having more money to spend.

Wait a minute, Cain is flat on his ass broke advertising on
YouTube.

Well nobody ever accused the Navy pension/Medicaid collecting
RimJob of being the sharpest tool in the drawer.

[Faryn Balyncd]

49. One moment you're Rush's "last great conservative hope" to defeat McCain...4 yrs later you're banned

....as a "liberal".



:rofl:

[MadrasT]

50. I love it when they eat their own. (n/t)

[Pacifist Patriot]

51. I didn't realize that site was even still around.

[LeftinOH]

52. These are the same folks who were convinced that McCain -NOT Palin- was the reason they lost in '08.

[woo me with science]

54. Does this mean FreeRepublic goes away if he is the nominee?

Seriously. What are they going to do then? :rofl:

[harun]

69. They'll do the only thing they know, complain.

[Name removed]

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[HughBeaumont]

57. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the chasm leap in logic . . .

. . . that defines Romney, a corporate raider/serial firer/profit pocketer, as a "liberal progressive". I'm utterly amazed at that shit. The meds must really be fucking JimDumb's head up.

[Courtesy Flush]

59. Pro-Constitution and anti-gay rights?

my head is spinning.

[workinclasszero]

60. I cant wait till Mittens gets the GOP nomination!

I'm going to grab some popcorn and head over to nazicentral AKA freakrepublic.

It will he HIlarious to see rimjob and his mom's basement warriors eating their own!:rofl:

[Aerows]

61. Romney will never be president

The wing nut faction of the GOP can't stand him because he's a flip-flopper, and the more moderate (read: sane) faction doesn't make up enough to overcome the wing nut portion.

The GOP has a HUGE enthusiasm gap. I've gotten to the point where I openly ridicule my relatives that are trying to even discuss the GOP nomination. It makes them SO mad, but they all know they don't have a prayer with any of the numbskulls running in the GOP race, which is of course, why I do it.

I've been thoroughly enjoyed watching them eat their own hearts out because they have nothing but failures to choose from.

[SpiralHawk]

62. Freepers attempting to shoot selves in own brainpans

such a small target

[Douglas Carpenter]

63. I'm wondering-- is possible that Herman Cain might "Forest Gump" his way into the GOP nomination?

Forgive me for besmirching the good name of Forest Gump. But I have to agree that by all reasonable standards it would be outrageous for someone like Herman Cain to be even considered as a serious contender for one single second. Even putting aside the question of his astounding ignorance about virtually every single issue that is important for the country - even putting aside his outrageous extreme rhetoric - the guy has a resume that might be appropriate for a contender for a low to medium profile race for the U.S. House of Representatives in a low to medium profile district - but anyone who would suggest that he is even remotely qualified to be President of the United States is simply being either completely disingenuous or completely and absolutely loony.

But in spite of all of this - there is no other candidate that seems to be surviving the scrutiny of the current Republican Party base. And he is only surviving the scrutiny because the current Republican Party base is as Frank Schaeffer puts it, "the fifth column of the insane." And Cain is the only one who seems to be sufficiently insane while having the additional benefit of being able to convince Republicans that they are not racist and that their patently immoral views are solidly moral. Herman Cain seems to reassure them that what they are doing and what they are supporting is not as morally reprehensible as anyone but a sociopath's higher nature would surely suggest.

The bottom line is Mitt Romney is simply not acceptable to the vast majority of the Party Republican base. Herman Cain is the only candidate left standing who is acceptable to the majority of the Republican Party base - even though we are still well more than a month away from the earliest stages of the caucus and primary season. There is simply not a shred of evidence that some surprise candidate like Jeb or anyone else is waiting in the wings. I'm beginning to think that something too good to be true might, just might happen. - It is far, far from certain. - Sure the base might decide that they have no choice but bite the bullet and line up behind Mitt. But frankly I cannot imagine anything more wonderful and I cannot conceive of anything that would calm my fears about the 2012 election more than if by accident or design the too good to be true happened and Herman Cain somehow, someway - became the Republican Party nominee. And let's face it -there is at least a good chance Romney could win a general election, an off chance that Perry could win a general election - even a very remote chance that a Bachmann - well - VERY remote - but still at least abstractly possible - but Herman Cain? Just the thought of that and what the nomination of Herman Cain would mean for the November election - to truly crush the Republican Party in 1964 LBJ/Goldwater style makes me want to jump for joy.

[CanonRay]

64. Yeah, they support the Constitutuion, especially the Free Speech part

What unspeakable hypocrites.

[SOS]

65. FR will get mighty quiet after the primaries

Wall Street has selected Romney as the nominee.
The Republican primaries are theater, an exercise in a Potemkin village.

After the money has appointed Romney, Freepers will just post
that they are not going to vote at all.
Good!

[MicaelS]

66. All that is a smoke screen, the real reason is because

Romney is a member of the LDS Church, and Robinson and his followers believe the LDS is not "really" Christina, and rather is a cult.

[Name removed]

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[Cognitive_Resonance]

67. With Cain and Perry imploding I'm watching for Newt to potentially regain traction among

the hardcore anti-Romney crowd. He has the baggage of marriage/fidelity issues and a few off-the-reservation statements (individual mandate), but the extremists are more likely to overlook those transgressions than accept Romney's Mormonism and ties to the heresy of RomneyCare. Nomination of Newt would be an absolute gift toward the re-election of Pres. Obama and regaining the House.

[Leopolds Ghost]

71. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The fact that he is the chief architect and advocate for (individual mandates in Massachusetts) disqualifies him for any consideration whatsoever

[uponit7771]

73. lol

[southernyankeebelle]

74. Now that is what you call republican freedoms of speech.

[Douglas Carpenter]

in 2008 they banned Giuliani supporters but they NEVER banned McCain supporters

in fact I don't think they banned Romney supporters in 2008 either. Even though most of them didn't particularly care for McCain or Romney even then in 2008.

This would be a real back-down if they were to eventually support Romney - They must really be confident that someone considerably more extreme than Romney will eventually win the GOP nomination. I wonder who on earth they think that would be?

[B Calm]

76. OMG, I hate to break the news to the dumb bastards, but Romney will be their nominee. LOL

[county worker]

77. Well there goes another good fund drive!

I wonder why rim job would want to limit himself so much when he needs every penny he can get his "MITS" on.

[TygrBright]

78. I'm sure Mittens is crushed. Just crushed. n/t

[nonoxy9]

79. A capitalist is the guy who'll sell you the rope...HA! Freepers...

[Rambis]

81. So much for the free exchange of "Idea"

:evilgrin:

[valerief]

83. Wow! You'd think they'd like the whorebot. nt

[DainBramaged]

86. pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government, pro-constitution, pro-liberty site

You can't be pro-life and pro-gun, it just doesn't work.


Pro-shit is more like it.

[Monk06]

90. Rimjob is interested in only one thing, keeping his $352,000 dollar per yr family business alive.

That's small change for the right wing to keep a
well established blog roll site alive.