Well, folks - it didn't take long for the infighting to start, did it? I thought that they would at least wait a couple of months, but Party Purity wears no watch. I think it's dimly starting to dawn on them that the GOP has about as much use for the tea party as a snake has for roller skates.
At Free Republic this week, there was the expected celebration and ritual singing of the Horst-Wessel-Lied, but there was also this:
RINOs behind defeat of Tea Party candidates (Vanity)
Posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:18:47 AM by JimWayne
Don't blame the Democrats for the defeat of Christine O'Doneell(sic) and Sharon Angle. The RINOs have worked hard and worked WITH the Dims to make sure that the Tea Party candidates would not win.
In Delaware, it was Karl Rove who opposed O'Donnell. In Nevada, it was a state level RINO who supported the Democrat. In Alaska, RINOs have done everything to prevent Joe Miller from winning. You can be sure that Ken Buck must have been done in by RINOs like Karl Rove.
A suggestion to hit back at them - deny RINOs the right to post on FR. If anyone brings up the claim that it is better to support a "winnable" anti-life and pro-spending candidate instead of a Tea Party candidate, how about showing zero tolerance and kicking them out instantly even if they have been around for 10 years. Surely, GOP officials use FR to their benefit. Why not pay back in their own coin? If they don't support us, why should we support them?
1 posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:18:53 AM by JimWayne
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Let the purges begin!!!
To: JimWayne
I seriously doubt many "RINO’s" who voted for Dems over good conservative candidates are frequenters of FR. FR is a popular site but by and large we aren’t the political powerhouse some would think we are.
3 posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:21:45 AM by Artemis Webb
A powerhouse of whining and kvetching, perhaps...
Some like the idea:
(after a long "RINO list" that includes just about every Republican currently holding office)
(snip) Most important is what to do with RINOs!
RINOs should not be allowed to post on FR.
If an identified RINO is running against a Dem, you should not vote...unless it's for a third party nobody or the Democrat opponent.
When considering whether to vote for a candidate and you cannot decide if they are a RINO or not, the safest thing is to not vote either.
This means that you will never allow a pernicious RINO to subvert our nation sometime in the future because of your vote. Democrats will be solely to blame then for our demise, which will happen more rapidly and usher in a conservative Golden Age.
32 posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:38:13 AM by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
Others - not so much:
To: JimWayne
kicking them out instantly
Do you have a list of folks you would like to see purged?
Maybe if they're just semi-questionable we could just have a yellow star sewn on their jackets or something.
21 posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:32:16 AM by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
They kick the "purity" can around for some time, but when the subject turns to Romney, Big Jim wades in:
To: truthfreedom
I’ve given everyone fair warning. There will be no support for Romney on FR. Even if I have to boot every last RomneyBot from our forum. If Romney somehow becomes the nominee, FR will probably become a ghost town because I will run full time video ads telling the truth about his abortionist/statist story and they’ll be his own words straight from his horse’s ass!
132 posted on Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:57:41 PM by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
My goodness.
The rest here:
http://www.first-draft.com/...