A decade or so ago, Free Republic was a decent place for conservatives of all types to hang out. But it has been quite a number of years since it began a serious decline into niche nonsense. Take, for example, this thread started by the founder of Free Republic:
Ryan is a good man, but does not redeem the abortionist/homosexualist statist Romney
Lastly, we’re having a bit of changeover on our moderator staff. At least two moderators resigned this afternoon after I flatly refused to rein in a so-called anti-Mormon “bigot” on FR. Well, if being in opposition to false prophets and false prophecy makes a Christian believer a bigot, then I guess I’m a bigot. I’ve posted before that I flat do not believe that the Book of Mormon is the true word of God. Nor do I believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. The Christian bible warns us to be weary of false prophets and that I am. Romney being the presumptive Republican nominee does not change that fact.
Wow. Not the way to help win elections, jackass.
One thing I’ve never really understood is the drive some people have to support only those candidates that fit 100% with their political and even religious ideology. It’s a drive in contradiction to both reason and history… the same dweebs bitching about Romney not being conservative enough are pretty much the same ones who, four years ago, bitched that McCain wasn’t conservative enough. And so (so they said) they’d withhold their vote from McCain so that Obama would win and thus the RNC would be forced to nominate a Real Conservative in 2012. And now they claim they’ll not vote for Romney… thus helping Obama win another four years.
Dumb.