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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:41 PM Sep 2012

Dear Jim Robinson: The Conventions are over. Romney is your candidate so I ask you this....

When will you be shutting down Free Republic?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1011/Conservative_site_on_Romney_Enemies_of_the_constitution__are_not_welcome_here.html
Conservative site on Romney: 'Enemies of the constitution ... are not welcome here'

And in May, Robinson explicitly said Romney supporters are not welcome:

I'd rather shut the place down than be involved in any effort to install abortionist/gay rights pushing RINOS like Romney or Giuliani into the White House!! Do NOT push this crap on FR. Take your business elsewhere!!


Just curious!
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Dear Jim Robinson: The Conventions are over. Romney is your candidate so I ask you this.... (Original Post) LynneSin Sep 2012 OP
Rim Job and the freepers take themselves way to serious. upaloopa Sep 2012 #1
neither one of 'em could make it lastlib Sep 2012 #25
There isn't a word out of that man's mouth that means a damned thing. sibelian Sep 2012 #2
I don't expect much from RimJob, we all know Freepers are hypocrites. n/t ellisonz Sep 2012 #3
everyone at du should go there create a persona and post this ad nauseum leftyohiolib Sep 2012 #4
You missed his predictable buckling like a belt... richmwill Sep 2012 #5
That was a classic. He described Obama with more adjectives than an HP Lovecraft story arcane1 Sep 2012 #9
So after 5 months of kicking people out because they supported Rmoney, he now supports him too. denverbill Sep 2012 #12
Yep, and busy hating on Obama and Democrats, the usual. freshwest Sep 2012 #38
For the record: FR RimJob's 180 degree turn and reFudiation of his strongest position Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #26
Because he's an idealogue, an opportunist Aerows Sep 2012 #6
That motorhome he owns doesn't run on moonbeams and rainbows, yanno. Ikonoklast Sep 2012 #7
And I'd wager as soon as he gets enough, Aerows Sep 2012 #8
Very true. richmwill Sep 2012 #13
Oh well Aerows Sep 2012 #14
He did the same thing with Bush during the primaries sufrommich Sep 2012 #10
In defense of Mr. Robinson's right to oppose Mitt Romeny Jack Rabbit Sep 2012 #11
I'm gonna click on this Aerows Sep 2012 #15
Well, I warned he'd make Republicans look almost tolerable Jack Rabbit Sep 2012 #22
He sounds like an idiot. AsahinaKimi Sep 2012 #16
No, ma'am, he doesn't sound like an idiot Jack Rabbit Sep 2012 #18
Winston tastes good Dyedinthewoolliberal Sep 2012 #21
What do you want? Frank Cannon Sep 2012 #34
being that I don't smoke AsahinaKimi Sep 2012 #27
I am much older than you Jack Rabbit Sep 2012 #31
I think "like" is correct here. Jim Lane Sep 2012 #29
No. Thanks to that commercial, I learned that it is not. Jack Rabbit Sep 2012 #32
Yes, the commercial was wrong, but my point is that the DUer was right. Jim Lane Sep 2012 #33
this guy belongs in Somolia onethatcares Sep 2012 #17
Oh, heavens, no! Don't send him to Somalia Jack Rabbit Sep 2012 #19
mitt romney heaven05 Sep 2012 #24
The odds of Jim shutting down FreeRepublic are the same as Jamaal510 Sep 2012 #20
If he'd move to the country with 200 volcanoes and fell into one, he'd meet his mentor at last: freshwest Sep 2012 #39
Ticos and Ticas will be mad as hell formercia Sep 2012 #23
The freepers are like the heckler from Happy Gilmore at this point. Initech Sep 2012 #28
Almost all the Freepers are following their leader, because they so intensely hate Obama. Jim Lane Sep 2012 #30
That's when they were upset Herman Cain B Calm Sep 2012 #35
If my name was Rimjob, I would change my name. sarcasmo Sep 2012 #36
Spam deleted by Violet_Crumble (MIR Team) usaliton Sep 2012 #37

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
1. Rim Job and the freepers take themselves way to serious.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:42 PM
Sep 2012

How come the Koch brothers don't help buy a better server?

On edit:

I don't remember seeing the freeper contingent at the RNC.

lastlib

(22,981 posts)
25. neither one of 'em could make it
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:39 PM
Sep 2012

the car was up on blocks, and yaknow how they both hate to walk farther than the fridge....

sibelian

(7,804 posts)
2. There isn't a word out of that man's mouth that means a damned thing.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:43 PM
Sep 2012

If anything he's even less authentic than Ryan or Romney.

richmwill

(1,326 posts)
5. You missed his predictable buckling like a belt...
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:51 PM
Sep 2012

He posted a thread a month or so ago that even though Romney wasn't his top choice, he now supports him because it's now more important to get Obama out. So much for "principles", eh? I laughed because I knew it would happen. You had to know even ol' Jim would eventually say "Yes, Daddy- Whatever you say" to the GOP he claimed to not be supporting this election due to their choice of Romney. It actually was a humorous post- he stated "I have spent my last sleepless night agonizing over this...".

denverbill

(11,489 posts)
12. So after 5 months of kicking people out because they supported Rmoney, he now supports him too.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:56 PM
Sep 2012

I predicted he would as well. He's a lemming like the rest.

He's got all the moral fiber of a wet noodle. The first one to run screaming around about revolution and armed rebellion and the first one to cower under his bed if the fighting starts and beg for mercy. If he's not too busy begging for money.

Living on Social Security and Disability and Medicare and screaming about people living off of government. Just another disgusting, small-brained twit like most tea-party members.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,787 posts)
26. For the record: FR RimJob's 180 degree turn and reFudiation of his strongest position
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:52 PM
Sep 2012

They've been tearing themselves apart and running purges and pogroms over on FR. They've been zotting (revoking) members all over the place for not toeing the party line. They have had huge (HUGH!!!1!!) discussions tearing off their shirts with much gnashing of teeth and wailing.

Notice: FR does not and will not support Abortionist, Gay Rights Pushing Big Government Statists
May 26, 2011 | Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2725798/posts
1,586 replies

"I'd rather shut the place down than be involved in any effort to install abortionist/gay rights pushing RINOS like Romney or Giuliani into the White House!!"


Frank discussion re our loss to Obama/Romney and the future direction of FR and tea party movement
May 4, 2012 | Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2879805/posts?page=1
1,524 replies

{Romney} "still stubbornly holds on to some of his statist beliefs, like global warming, gays in the military, RomneyCare, stimulus spending, etc, so there is no way I can vote for him or join Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Newt or any others who are endorsing him. But I will not act on my prior promises that I would actively campaign against him if he wins the nomination."


Ryan is a good man, but does not redeem the abortionist/homosexualist statist Romney
Aug 11, 2012 | Jim Robinson
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2917406/posts
5,190 replies

"But I still cannot and will not support the grand father of ObamaCare. Romney still loves and brags about his bastard brainchild, RomneyCare, even today when he knows what an anti-liberty socialist POS it is."


Politics (as usual) is the art of the possible, but with God ALL things are possible!!
Aug 16, 2012 | Jim Robinson
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2919388/posts

"Well, {Romney} can try for the leftist, homosexualist, illegal alien vote if he wants, but he'll never get mine. And that's for sure."


[font color = "red"]RimJob changes his vote,[/font] two days later, [font color = "red"]and does what he vowed and swore he'd never do: support Romney[/font]

Obama the capitalism-hating, liberty-hating, America-hating Marxist must be destroyed!!
Aug 20, 2012 | Jim Robinson
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920626/posts
1,546 replies

"As much as I detest what the Republican party has become, there is no other party on this earth that can come anywhere close to accomplishing what must be accomplished to keep America from spiraling down a Marxist/communist toilet. [...] We'll deal with Romney and the RINOS later."

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
6. Because he's an idealogue, an opportunist
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:52 PM
Sep 2012

and now that the handwriting is on the wall that Mitt is his candidate, he has to go along to get along with donations?

Jim Robinson is a fraud. He runs constant pleas for money, yet he has one of the worst run and worst managed websites on the net. It isn't due to traffic, it's due to his commitment that Free Republic is his vehicle to "I've got mine, screw you".

The second he gets enough of what he thinks is "his", regardless of what he says, he'll shut the place down and laugh his way into retirement.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
7. That motorhome he owns doesn't run on moonbeams and rainbows, yanno.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:59 PM
Sep 2012

Diesel costs money, and the sheep keep Rimjob in sheckels.

richmwill

(1,326 posts)
13. Very true.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:04 PM
Sep 2012

He asks for what, approximately $90,000 every 3 months to run that Angelfire-like bulletin board? He's laughing all the way to the bank at those suckers.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
14. Oh well
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:08 PM
Sep 2012

If they are inclined to pay good money to an ideologue with limited abilities, at least they aren't wasting them running against leaders that want to move our country forward.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
10. He did the same thing with Bush during the primaries
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:25 PM
Sep 2012

called him an idiot cokehead. Of course, that's all been purged.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
11. In defense of Mr. Robinson's right to oppose Mitt Romeny
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:46 PM
Sep 2012

He doesn't need to shut down FR because he's lost his argument with the wider GOP about the presidential nominee. After all, even today's GOP, folding up the big tent to become a party of racists, misogynists, homophobes, sectarian bigots, Ayn Rand devotees and the remnants of Birch Society fascists, still lets the aristocratic financial elitists into fold; that is a faction pays an awful lot of bills and decided that one of their own should be the standard bearer of the party.

Mr. Robinson has every right to reject Mitt Romney for his own reasons, which are quite different from my reasons for rejecting Mitt Romney. There are other candidates he can support, like Grady Warren. Hey, DU, remember him? Somebody posted the announcement of his candidacy for president here quite some time ago:

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Now, there's a candidate JimRob can support. Grady Warren makes Mitt Romney (or Paul Ryan or Todd Akin or Michele Bachmann) look almost tolerable.

However, most right wing morons, perhaps even Jim Robinson himself, know that Grady Warren isn't going to be president. Maybe that idea to send blacks ("others races will follow&quot to re-education camps to "learn to be good Americans" sounds just wee bit too extreme, or maybe the irony of "we white men are tired of called racists" coming from the same source is just a wee bit too thick.

As for my tastes, Mitt Romney is too much like the racists, misogynists, homophobes, sectarian bigots, Ayn Rand devotees, the remnants of Birch Society fascists, the aristocratic financial elitists and other misfits that make up today's Republican party. Not all of the people at the GOP convention would have called Eisenhower a Communist, but they would have read him out of the GOP along with Arlen Specter, Richard Lugar or Warren Rudman and perhaps even Ronald Reagan for some ideological infraction or another. Most certainly they would read out George Romney.

I am far from happy with Barack Obama, but I am voting for him. At the very least, I think America will survive a little longer -- at least to the election of 2016 -- under four more years of Obama than it will under the racists, misogynists, homophobes, sectarian bigots, Ayn Rand devotees, the remnants of Birch Society fascists, the aristocratic financial elitists and other misfits that Mr. Romney has freely chosen to lead.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
15. I'm gonna click on this
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:10 PM
Sep 2012

But I'm sure I'm going to be horrified if he is worse that Jim Robinson. I'm going to blame you because I watched the train wreck.

EDIT: I do indeed, blame you, for offering this train wreck for viewing.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
18. No, ma'am, he doesn't sound like an idiot
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:37 PM
Sep 2012

He sounds as an idiot.

I;d guess that you must have watched too many cigarette commercials on TV when you were young, especially those for Winston, but I don't think you're nearly as old as I am.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
27. being that I don't smoke
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:44 PM
Sep 2012

and have never smoked, I would probably have not paid attention to such ads. (No one in my family smoke either. )

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
31. I am much older than you
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 02:16 AM
Sep 2012

A cigarette ad was like any other TV commercial: loud, obnoxious and able to grab your attention like a steel trap. You still may not have taken up smoking if you grew up in the fifties and sixties, but you would have known they were pushing them.

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BTW, I don't smoke, either.
 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
29. I think "like" is correct here.
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 01:30 AM
Sep 2012

Last edited Sat Sep 8, 2012, 05:01 AM - Edit history (1)

I haven't checked this, but I think one uses "like" before a noun (or noun phrase) and "as" before a verb phrase.

Thus, "This guy sounds like an idiot" but "This guy babbles, as Republicans often do."

"Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should" (the line in the commercial) was incorrect because "a cigarette should" was a verb phrase.

Incidentally, the error got so much attention that Winston next ran a commercial taking off on the criticism: "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?"

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
32. No. Thanks to that commercial, I learned that it is not.
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 02:43 AM
Sep 2012

My English teacher brought it up on day.

Winston tastes good as a cigarette should (taste). There's your verb.

On the other hand, one could say Winston tastes like a cigarette. OK, so tell us something we don't know, Mr. Adman.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
33. Yes, the commercial was wrong, but my point is that the DUer was right.
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 04:59 AM
Sep 2012

AsahinaKimi wrote, "He sounds like an idiot." That's analogous to your example of "Winston tastes like a cigarette." In both instances, "like" is correct.

ETA: Given that I'd said that the commercial was incorrect, I was surprised (and irked) that you could so completely garble my meaning. Then I rechecked my post and saw that I had garbled my meaning. I noted that the commercial was incorrect but, in explaining that, said "noun phrase" when I meant "verb phrase". Apologies! I've fixed it now.

BTW, just to bring this digression back within hailing distance of the original topic, I'll mention that this kind of discussion pops up on DU but not on FR.

onethatcares

(16,132 posts)
17. this guy belongs in Somolia
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:21 PM
Sep 2012

but the question remains; Who is going to put the trache in that hole in his throat?

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
19. Oh, heavens, no! Don't send him to Somalia
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:38 PM
Sep 2012

He would just want to send all the Somalis to re-education camps and make good Americans out of them.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
24. mitt romney
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:24 PM
Sep 2012

is a racist. according to a poster on du today his father had a run-in with a young, screaming mitt a few decades ago, because these blacks had nerve enough, they were delivering something to his father, to knock on the front door and didn't have enough sense or understanding of place to go around to the rear of the house where all the help entered. He's a bully pig. No moral compass or conscience.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
39. If he'd move to the country with 200 volcanoes and fell into one, he'd meet his mentor at last:
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 01:41 PM
Sep 2012


Costa Rica's Arenal, November 2006, open and ready for business. Jump, Rush, jump!

formercia

(18,479 posts)
23. Ticos and Ticas will be mad as hell
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:03 PM
Sep 2012

when they have to bring their kids inside before Dark, because LimpBaugh lives in the same Country.

All LimpBaugh is good for, is sequestering Carbon.

Initech

(99,913 posts)
28. The freepers are like the heckler from Happy Gilmore at this point.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:12 PM
Sep 2012

Whether it's Obama or members of their own party. "YOU WILL NOT MAKE THIS PUTT.... JACKASS!!!"

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
30. Almost all the Freepers are following their leader, because they so intensely hate Obama.
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 01:36 AM
Sep 2012

I've looked in on a few of the threads. The most common view is that Romney isn't all that great but that Obama is horrible. America can't survive four more years. This election is our last chance to save the country. A re-elected Obama will rule by decree and drive the country into socialistic ruin regardless of Congress. We have to vote against him and then, the day after the election, begin working to win back the Republican Party from the liberals like Romney (!) and/or building a true conservative third party.

There are also some fairly well-reasoned defenses of the basic approach that, in a two-party system, you fight for your beliefs in the primaries and then vote for the lesser of two evils in the general election.

If FR is any indication, we can't hope for many right-wingers to vote for Johnson (Libertarian Party) or Goode (Constitution Party) in a mirror image of the Nader follies of 2000.

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