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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Romney Supporters Banned From Free Republic (Rim Job has spoken) Conservative site on Romney: 'Enemies of the constitution ... are not welcome here' 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: Liberal progressives and other enemies of the constitution and or of Liberty itself are not welcome here. Accounts registered here by liberal progressives and other assorted trolls, malcontents and disruptors will be removed on sight or at the convenience of the site administrators. The site came under fire from Ross Abraham, a blogger for Mitt Romney Central, who wrote today that Free Republic is just one of several sites (along with RedState, he says) on the right-wing Internet that are pretty much off limits to Mitt Romney's supporters. But Free Republic has made no secret of its dislike for Romney -- Robinson has written a handful of posts that are hostile to Romney this year. He posted on "why we can never support Mitt Romney" earlier this month, saying Romney has "violated nearly every plank in the Republican party's official pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Family, pro-Constitution, pro-Liberty platform." And in May, Robinson explicitly said Romney supporters are not welcome: It's unclear what the situation is at RedState, though, the other site named in Abraham's story. I reached out to Erick Erickson for comment, but didn't get a response. Nate Gunderson, who also writes for Mitt Romney Central, said he doesn't know the whole background with RedState but that Abraham's post was in response to two pro-Romney writers being banned from the site. "I know that Red State is typically not a Romney friendly zone, but I concede to them the right to run their website as they wish," he wrote in an email. "It is a real possibility that these two may have over stepped their bounds." He said he's not really concerned with the sites' practices and that he hasn't reached out to them at all. "There are those who don't like Romney and may never come around to him," he said. "I think there are enough sensible voters out there that it won't really matter." Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 5.
#5. To: Ferret, 4 (#0)
Altho I despise Rimmer, I can't blame him for running his forum the way he chooses. And he does have Romney right. Unfortunately, he has nearly everything else wrong, so his forum is continuing it's slide to political obscurity. The good news is that between the FReakers and the ElPee'ers (no Ron Paul please), the GOP is fracturing, which will serve to strip power from the establishment and in time lead to a 3rd party. On a side note, regardless of Rimmer's dictates, I'm betting 90% (+) of FReekville will vote for whomever the GOP'ers elevate, so his Romney ban is useless.
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#5)
I agree. My money is on Ron Paul. If he is forced to a third party run, I will continue to give my time to out info booth every Saturday at the Saturday market site in Eugene and will keep sending him donations.
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