"We no longer have a conservative movement in this country." --Freeper responding to Romney at CPAC

[alp227]

"Mittens is a not a conservative.

The fact he gives an address at CPAC tells me all I need to know.

We no longer have a conservative movement in this country."

--Free Republic poster responding to news about 2012 (R) presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaking at this year's CPAC

Hmm. Does this statement make you more optimistic about our chances in 2014 and 2016? If you want to have fun & read the rest of the booing at Romney click here.

[niyad]

1. that post cannot be from a freeper--everything is spelled and punctuated correctly.

[freshwest]

3. Not only that, you just know they love 'Let God sort 'em out' Rand Paul.

Ain't no way that was a GOPher. Must be a DU plant trying to make them look as if they function above the brainstem. They operate cognitively on the same level as their god Rush:

*oogle* *squeal* *snort* *grunt* *fart*

[Booster]

2. All I know is all my conservative friends are really, really quiet now. I'm reading that as they

are ashamed of their reps in Wash DC right now. In my opinion if the Reps in Wash DC keep going down the obstructionist path, they will make sure they won't have a chance in Hell of winning the Presidency for many, many years to come. They really should give in on a few things. I have asked "what has the Republican Party ever done for the common man" for many years now and have never received an answer - they have done nothing for the common man.

[alp227]

4. What about lower taxes, limited government, less regulation?

Never mind the effects of these on the common man, for example less environmental regulations=poorer communities screwed by greedy dirty energy companies.

[sofa king]

5. As long as there is fear, there is conservatism.

Things aren't scary enough right now? Don't worry, just as someone always spins out in a NASCAR race when the leader is getting too far ahead, "the terrorists" will be back to knock the Freepers back into goose-step.

[Cosmocat]

12. Yep

I keep telling people this.

Yeah, it is fun seeing them in disarray right now and all, but these clowns won elections decades ago screaming about how putting fluoride in water was a communistic plot.

SOMETHING is going to come around that they can rally around the country is dumb enough to get snuckered into.

[Cha]

6. But, but, but.. mittLies said he was

"Severely Conservative".. does his word not mean anything to those who are brainwashed?

palin was there in all her big gulp gory glory.. does that not carry any weight?

[tanyev]

7. A steady diet of lies and propaganda is very constipating.

[Sunlei]

8. Not one ex-republican president will even speak at their own events & what happened to Ron Paul?

His own republican party stabbed him in the back at the veryyyy last second and he disapeared off the face of the earth. His own son won't even speak his own fathers name.

Was Ron Paul buried alive when bs mountian came crashing down?

[Jamaal510]

9. This guy is correct, but for the wrong reason.

Their movement on the Right does not represent true conservatism; they are just reactionists and regressives. There's nothing "conservative" about today's GOP at all; they want to do away with the Voting Rights Act, Roe v. Wade, environmental standards for corporations, Social Security, Medicare, Affirmative Action, and Obamacare. Real conservatives want to CONSERVE things and keep them as they are. But these jokers in the Republican Party (including Mittens) want to essentially travel back in time, where people had less rights and where corporations could really run wild.

[zipplewrath]

10. Pretty much dead on

Quite honestly, these are not our father's conservatives. This bunch isn't the Buckley, Goldwater crowd at all. This isn't the group of conservatives that built a political philosopy on a foundation of think tanks and conservative journals. This is the Birchers reborn. It is the KKK with new clothes. It's a bunch of snake oil salesmen with a new product. They don't build anything, they milk everything for all it's worth.

I know a few "true blue" conservatives. They were horrified by W. His nation building, his deficit spending, his unfunded health care expansion. Truth is, the older ones remember the "real" Reagan and how much deficit spending he did, and the "golden asterisk". They remember that he signed the Rostenkowski income tax rate reduction, but it wasn't "revenue neutral". They wanted rates to go down and REVENUES to go down too. They remember that he never even PROPOSED a balanced budget. They are embarrassed by Lebanon.

But they are like liberals in the democratic party. There never has been a truly conservative president as far as they are concerned. W was as close as they were going to get and that wasn't anywhere close.

[DFW]

11. EXACTLY

They have hijacked a word out of convenience. Just like they have tried to make "liberal" a dirty word. They have their own language, like Pig Latin, and they speak it among themselves.

A friend of mine from England was visiting some acquaintances in Virginia, and after discussing some politics, they called her "liberal." Speaking only English, she thanked them for the compliment, and they were baffled, as they thought they had handed the worst insult they could think of.

And I always get a laugh out of American reactionaries calling themselves "conservative." I take a cautious approach to things, am still on my first marriage, do no drugs, have no debts, completed college before taking a job, and I'm still with the outfit I joined in 1975. My wife and I have raised two normal children who can fend for themselves. In other words I'm conservative--and a dyed-in-the-wool Deaniac. The two terms are not in contradiction. I'm just not "a conservative" in the way the term has been hijacked by the Foxsuckers. But just because you wade into the ocean and get your feet wet, it still doesn't make you a fish.

Today's Republicans are no more conservatives than they are unicorns.

[BlueDemKev]

13. No, NOT AT ALL

Conservatism will still be around long after cancer is cured, as it is a natural instinct to be closed-minded and resist change. We cannot let up in our efforts one bit. We must always be ready to fight and defeat right-wingers at the polls.

Sitting out just ONE election can set back progress for YEARS (just look at the 2010 elections...we're stuck with several right-wing asshole Senators for six years (namely Johnson, Toomey, and Ayotte) and the Republican-controlled states gerrymandered their congressional districts that the redneck right is totally overrepresented in Congress and has all but ensured a Republican majority in the House for years to come. With Republicans controlling the majority of state legislatures and 30 governorships, they can (and will) do all they can to obstruct the implementation of Obamacare (just so they can say, "See? We told you it wouldn't work!" (Kind of like saying "See, the car won't go!" while holding the spark plugs behind your back!).

VOTE in every election, EVERY time!