In a recent article it was announced that Alec Baldwin has decided he is no longer interested in acting. Mr. Baldwin, apart from his roles in such movies as “The Hunt for Red October” and “Glengarry Glen Ross”, is also know for being a highly opinionated man with a volcanic temper. He has, in the past, called for Republican Henry Hyde and his family to be dragged out into the street and stoned to death and has described his own daughter as a “rude, thoughtless little pig.” And in this most recent story about his decision to leave acting, we learn that he doesn’t mind having ended his relationship with his girlfriend of seven years because “I’d rather be lonely than wrong.” This statement is both shocking and entirely unsurprising; Mr. Baldwin abuses friend and foe, including family because he would rather be alone than admit he was wrong. It explains quite a lot, really.
Now, Mr. Baldwin is no hero over at Free Republic.com. His decidedly Liberal point of view and consistently over-heated, dishonest and hysterical declarations about Conservatives (not to mention the garbage he points at his supposed loved ones) earns him nothing but derision at FR and deservedly so. And yet, many Freepers (particularly the head Freeper himself) share this very trait they hate so much in Mr. Baldwin. Enemies are not just wrong, they are evil incarnate. And, even the slightest degree of disagreement is cause for breathless, hyper-critical and dishonest denunciations of people who are, in most other respects, their allies.
Currently, with Obama and Congressional Democrats trying to remake this Democratic Republic into a Socialist Democratic country in the European socialist mold, Islamic terrorists regaining their strength and motivation and our very Constitution hanging in the balance, Jim Robinson has decided that the biggest enemy that the world faces right now is…Mitt Romney. Mr. Robinson has gone so far as to insist that not only was Mitt Romney strongly pro-abortion but that Romney himself is a “big government socialist butcher.” And, when it is pointed out to him that Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have (or at least had at the time) a different view of Mr. Romney despite having seen the same videos and same information Mr. Robinson is presenting as proof of Mr. Romney’s myriad sins against humanity, this was his reply “(It) Doesn’t matter to me what Rush Limbaugh or anyone else says about the man.” and “Some on your list of conservative leaders may be in line for a sudden demotion if they continuing pushing the RINO line.” Mr. Robinson, meet Mr. Baldwin. You have at least one trait in common. Jim Robinson would rather be “alone” politically than admit even the possibility of being wrong.
Free Republic has been and is today a great resource for news gathering and the dissemination of the Conservative view point. Mr. Robinson has done Conservatism and the country a great favor with his site. However, when the dialog goes from simple disagreement to accusations of “butcher” and “pig” over quotations that have been deliberately taken out of context and exaggerated for political gain, the benefit of such a site is diminished greatly. Mr. Robinson has declared Free Republic to be off limits to those who support Mitt Romney. At the same time, he is using his site to promote a view of Mitt Romney that borders on slander. Yes. It is his site and he can use it as he wishes. Likewise, Mr. Baldwin has the right to say what he says, regardless of how idiotic, abusive and destructive to his own family they may be.
The big problem with the attitude of “I’d rather be lonely than wrong” is that it is tragically short sighted. You may not “need” others right now, but you will in the future. And when you do, you will in fact be completely alone. We all have the right, whether it be online or elsewhere, to burn our bridges. However, what we don’t have the right is to then expect in the future, when we find that we actually do need others, that we can just demand help from those we drove away all those years ago. No human being is perfect. No one gets all of the facts 100% right all the time. Insisting that your interpretation of the facts is the only possible interpretation, particularly in the face of evidence that others you respect have a differing opinion, is nonsensical and ultimately self-defeating.
Mr. Baldwin is likely to end up old, alone and even more bitter about life than he is now. We can only hope that Jim Robinson and the merry band of yes-men who want to drive out all those who disagree with them, can discover reason before they follow Mr. Baldwin down the path of self-destruction. And for what its worth, here’s hoping Mr. Baldwin can find reason as well.
Well this is no surprise. Google Jim Robinson and Huckabee and you see that he endorsed him. This is nothing but another person suffering of Huckster Hate Romney Syndrome. Romney hasn’t said any negative thing about Huckabee since the campaign, but clearly the Huckster and his ilk don’t have as much class. Attack, attack, attack.
If we don’t figure out how to unify then we can look forward to another 4 years of Obama.
Wake up Huck fans and stop the attacks which only hurt us in the future. Lets unify behind whoever wins the nomination.
Amen Michael! You are exactly right.
I agree.. I will support who ever wins in 2012.. JR better change or his site is gonna crash and burn..
You really hit the nail on the head here. As a former FReeper, I can clearly see FR on the road to self destruction.
Hannity used to post there. When he stopped, he said they eat their own on FR. He is right. No thanks Jim Robinson, and the fellow cult members that are Free Republic.
Well, to be fair, Jim Robinson ultimately endorsed Fred Thompson. But you do have a point about coming together. There are far bigger fish to fry here.
I know for a fact from private conversations with many other freepers that there are a lot of people on FR that support Romney. They know there is an effort to purge them going on, many have just left, many more have stopped donating (hence it is taking them a long, long time complete a freepathon compared to the past). Those that have stayed keep that quite so as not to be banned or draw the fire of the pack of mad dogs.
My fondest hope is that either Mitt gets the nomination, or Palin gets it and picks Mitt for VP. Either way the meltdown on FR will be a blast to watch.
That is too unfortunate. FR seems to get their tactics strait out of the Left’s playbook. We have way too many masked Liberals in this party. For instance, the Huckabee folks, lead by him, are shameless at waging class warfare against “the guy who laid you off, as opposed to the you worked with.”
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Mark Dixon, for example, was a contributor over at FR and is the one who created this post.
Unfortunately, Mitt Romney fits right in with liberal Massachussetts. Look at his mess of state healthcare! He’s not a conservative, no matter how he campaigns.
After working nearly 2 decades in the Republican Party, I’m tired of the Conservatives having to compromise so much on own principles. I am as guilty as any other “politician” for settling for the lesser of two evils. We started it in the early 90′s and it’s not played in our favor. We were let down by Newt and those who signed the “Contract With America”. When they finally had a few years of “control”, they were too nice to the dems and wanted to work with them. I, like so many people I meet at the tea parties, am tired of the lack of leadership in the Republican Party. We found a breath of fresh air in Sarah Palin, only to have her marginalized by the RINOS. McCain would have never gotten my vote without Sarah. And if she starts a party, I, and thousands others, are THERE!!!
GOP_Thug_Mom, Freeper since 12/2000
There seems to be a massive number of people who apparently do not differentiate between those they disagree with and an enemy.
There is evil in the world, but it generally doesn’t go under the label “liberal” or “conservative”. I know – it shocked me too.