The Five Stages of Grief, Now on Display at FreeRepublic.com

DENIAL

McCain Won the Debate, Hands Down, No Contest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100422/posts

General Election: McCain vs. Obama: All polls today (so far) trending McCain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100403/posts

Obama Won't Play Well In The Northeast
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100262/posts

Cheer Up Freepers, We Are Going To Win
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099187/posts


BARGAINING

Imagine Romney or Giuliani in last nights debate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100387/posts

Negative Campaigning is Patriotic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100444/po...

Berg v. Obama: Could Obama Still Be Disqualified?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2096430/po...

A "what IF": What if Obama axes his current VP choice and replaces him with T.Boone Pickens?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2084840/po...

Hillary... Can you save us?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2100108/posts


ANGER

Pit Bull McCaskill spits on Romney's ear piece
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100442/posts

Crash the Biden Rally in Tampa!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100038/posts

McCain must become TRUMAN. "Give 'em Hell"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100515/posts

Claw Hammer Killer Endorses Obama From Death House
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2073379/po...


DEPRESSION

US Headed For Demise Under Democrats, Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100475/posts

An unhappy interlude is coming
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100523/posts

Prepare for the Worst
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100511/posts

SAVAGE: What most scares you about an Obama Presidency?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100132/po...

I need a beer.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2100140/posts


ACCEPTANCE

You Guys Are Nuts (Face it, McCain is Toast)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100146/posts

Signing Off (Mark Steyn)- Well I have gone outside and pulled up my Mcain/Palin sign. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100390/posts

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The presidency is yours, Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100211/posts

Meditation on the Divine Will
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100416/posts

is that these people have to be so incredibly gullible and incapable of reading an individual's persona. There is not a hateful bone in Obama's body. That's ALL McCain has. They're such hypocrites.
Obama has integrity oozing from his pores and McCain would stop at ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to destroy whoever is in the way of him getting what he wants. He blatantly lies and projects utter crap on Obama all day long and these people are just so mindless, such lemmings that they spew it and regurgitate whatever SHITE (intentional) they're fed. Amazing!!
They're angry with McCain for not laying into Obama to his face, but the fact is that McCain knows that Obama can nail him a thousand times over and McCain is VERY afraid of opening that can of worms . . . unless Obama's not there and he can't defend himself from the BS.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! Well . . . I guess they finally are and it will be a very sweet experience to be rule by a competent, honest man again.

Even a few posts there give me a headache. How you do it??

1) Denial
2) Denial
3) Denial
4) Denial
5) Denial

Awesome! Well said, mate!!!

Alllllll denial

Including several "go back to DU, troll" responses to the (relatively) rational FReepers who started the threads.

Quoth Mark Twain

1) Conservatism is tested, tough, and is at its best when things are worst.
2) The Democrats will destroy America.
3) We're being picked on.
4) If the American people were just presented conservatism honestly, they'd tumble for us.
5) DAMN LIBERAL MEDIA!
6) I'll go listen to Limbaugh/Hewitt/Hannity &c ... they'll tell me the truth

It's belwildering they way they see the economy collapsing and are losing their homes yet somehow think it wasn't the boys in control that did it.

I'd like to get me a pair of those glasses. Then my life would be a rousing success!

are going through that at the moment. I would have given the Freepers a bit more respect but they seem to be wearing the same tin foil hats that frazzled the brains of the PUMA mob.

denial
anger
attack
blame
storm out?

it shows a less than Christian attitude.

Who are always fair game.

Well done.

Signing Off (Mark Steyn)
National Review ^ | 10/8/08 | Mark Steyn

Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:39:45 AM by steve-b

This reader out-Andies Andy:

Well I have gone outside and pulled up my Mcain/Palin sign. This election is over. I will vote for Mcain but I know that come Nov. 5 Obama will be our president-elect.
I feel sorry for Sarah Palin. A once promising career will be permanently connected to the landside loss of John McCain.
I weep for my children and their families.
Steady on. This next month is going to be a long month. Lots of things will happen. But McCain has to make some of them happen. His charge that Obama doesn't know the difference between "strategy" and "tactics" could equally well be leveled at his own campaign.

I won't touch freerepublic. I'd get a disease!

The world as we know it is coming crashing down around our ears after the Republicans have sucked it dry with their greed and self-centeredness and he is going to weep for his children because Obama will be our next president? Really?

Ridiculous.

"We'll have a Huge deficit by end of 4 years"

That's some funny, delusional stuff!

oh never mind

The magnitude of the surplus may not be determined at this point.

As the sayin' goes, each time these nut cases 'predict' something, expect the opposite will happen.

The only exception might be the one that says Obama will be our next president.

But then, he looks like 'less nutty' than the rest of the cracks.

Paul Rosenberg wrote the following:

9/11. Enron. Katrina. Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. 4180 US troops and up to 1.2 million Iraqi civilians dead. The biggest financial meltdown since Herbert Hoover. Attacking decorated veterans while defending a deserter.

And NOW they weep? Because they can't have another four years of the same?

These people are sick, sick, sick.

My next door neighbor has voted Bush twice. She came up to me this morning and asked if she could come with me to the Obama rally. I was SHOCKED and of course took her with me. She started asking me all kinds of questions about what has been happening these past 8 years. I mentioned that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's had died during the occupation and she said she had never heard anything about it. I was going to email her several articles about different aspects of the last eight year fiasco and was hoping maybe you had a good link explaining the toll the Iraqi's have suffered.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

They truly care about their children and their families. This person is weeping and does not realize that the children and family will be light-years better off when this prediction of "doom and gloom" comes to pass. Goodness how awful to be despondent over things looking up for everyone involved.

Obama they will think THEY were just lucky, and the rest of the country is going to hell in a handbasket. And they will, no doubt, find evidence to support that in the socialization of health care (not knowing what McCain's plan would have done to them) and withdrawal from Middle Eastern wars (surrender, to their minds).

"I feel sorry for Sarah Palin. A once promising career will be permanently connected to the landside loss of John McCain. "

How about "I feel sorry for Sarah Palin. A once promising career will be permanently connected to Tina Fey, Katie Couric, and her own complete ineptitude when answering the simplest questions. "


She was dominated by Katie Couric for God's sake...on questions like "what newspapers do you read?" If this is the future of the republican party....stick a fork in 'em. I thought W was stupid...and he is...but Palin is an even bigger idiot. And the right still looks at her as a savior. If they run her in 2012 against Obama, we may finally be able to duplicate Reagan Mondale for our side....she is that bad.

Classic, and strangely true: The Palin strategy was based on the idea that some of Clinton's base would come riding to the rescue. Sorry guys, but when you're the republicans, and your hope for winning comes from the Clintons after all you've done to them, you're pretty screwn.

Although I will never visit that site, the thread topics themselves were illuminating in addition to the stage that you list them under.

But seriously, they needed John McCain to finally do some serious reflections on what went wrong with the Republican party? Hasn't the last 8 years been enough?

It also was a lot of work! THANK YOU. I needed to read this today!!! This should be on the front page!!! This is the best news we could possibly get.

I hope they stay home on election night.

nt

jump off the bridge...

DENIAL



BARGAINING



ANGER



DEPRESSION



ACCEPTANCE


"Good bye, everybody!"

kick them out of office like this? Things have been going so well for the last 8 years.

I swear lately I feel like I've been getting so much entertainment from that site I should donate. Hell, I'd hate to see em go out of business.

Every now and then there's a post from a voice of reason, but others always flame the truth-tellers into silence. The entertaining aspect, for me, comes from the totally upside-down way the folks there look at events and statements in the news. They look at the same things I do but come to completely opposite conclusions. Wild!

So I can say to the freeps, I've been there.

theirs won't except of course a black man will be in the White House...a house built by slaves...

I am so glad it's their turn this time!

LOL!

The racism, the bullying, the lies, the ignorance----sometimes it's just too much!

this is a classic post

...comes from the offices of Iranian President Ahmadinejad? Weird huh?

One of the most beautiful photographs I've ever seen.

He adjusted it slightly for my use. Here is the original:

he looks humbled by the trust this child shows him . . . he holds the future of he and all children in his hands. So beautiful and sweet. I feel like I/you/anyone could cry on their shoulders, they'd let you and they'd understand because they feel it, too, the mauling of this country . . . Joe would probably shed a few with ya

Is that the northeast of Georgia?

Since I don't look in on FreeRepublic much, I tend to imagine that their complete delusional insanity is a myth or at least exagerated. And then, every time someone posts something from them, I skim through the comments and realise "Yep, they're out of their minds".

lol, that's funny with all the categories.

to spend that much time over there. I follow most links to FR because of the entertainment value of their posts. However, after a few minutes of laughter and disbelief, I become disturbed of the reality of their existence.

So again thank you...that was a good laugh.

The right accuses the left of being full of conspiracy theorists, but wow - the Freepers are SO paranoid! It sounds like they trust NO ONE except Hannity and O'Reilly.

What a tortured existence they must have.

To: NCDragon

We have been in a Civil Cold War for decades now, between capitalism and morality, on one side, and socialism and decadence on the other.. The latter continue to make gains, and on the eve of the Great Battle of 2008, the prospects for the former are grim.

7 posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:32:29 AM by AZLiberty (Obama can act presidential. McCain should be President.)
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I thought that capitalism kind of shot itself in the head recently.

in their little "which word matches which other word?" test.

The correct answers were:

Capitalism and Decadence

Socialism and Morality

"5 Supreme Court Justices are 70 or over, and one is almost there. Obama will appoint at least 2, and possibly more. Court precedents are, effectively, forever.

Obama has attempted to shut down opposition of all types. He'll go after talk radio full bore if elected - and a revamped Court will aid & abet. We won't even be able to find out the facts about what he's doing, let alone mount effective opposition.

He'll pay for his social programs by denuding our defenses - at a time when Iran is developing nukes and the Norks have about a dozen.

He'll raise taxes, at a time when the economy is tanking.

He'll try to ban guns, or make guns & ammo so expensive via regulation that he'll effectively ban them. Gun shows will be a relic of the past. All sales will be recorded, making confiscation all the easier. I'm not even sure that we'll have free and fair elections by 2012.

Yes, he DOES present an existential threat to our way of life. When Carter was President, there was some civility, some sense of limits. We also still had the Cold War to keep us united. There's none of that now, and we're much closer to a precipice now. He is downright dangerous. "

Obama will shut down right wing radio shows? What kind of loony crap are they listening to that they come up with this stuff? Don't they even realize that THEY are the party that is systematically dismantling the constitution and its protections?

You have all day to imagine wild scenarios while sitting on the couch in your Mom's basement. This guy thinks he's a prophet.

Rush: "Help me! Help me! Come save me!"

a liberal publication. They're worried about McSame "damaging Sarah's prospects in the future." They're parodies of themselves.

The key to winning is for Palin to show off Joe Six Pack. here he is.
Beer Bellies for McBush Failing




And I wonder if they will look at the web site for the VP Granny www.votefortheGILF.com which directs you to the JohnMcSame web site with the GILF herself introducing on video!

Don't tell me they don't get it since it is the K bill printed in Dallas Bank #11

Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas in the 11th month!

Thanks for compiling this, this is fantastic!
Good work.

that they've been losing the battle against socialism for 30 years.

It is truly like they live in an alternate universe, where things are going in a much better direction and it somehow causes them great suffering.

They are a collection of the willfully ignorant, the evil, the stupid, and the insane.

n/t

but there's no fucking way I'm following these links.

I'll take your work for it. Seriously. Thanks.

Are assholes. They want Israel to attack Iran so we can go to war and that would be good for MaGoo. They also think the polls are crap. But what they don't realize is that they are crap and their guy is losing by a larger margin.

Or more accurately "protect the purity of your bodily fluids"

General Jack D. Ripper is a cool name. Of course a freeper would interpret that movie at face value.

...but more than 1/2 of them won't get it.

I wish I could give it a hug or a "must read" but a k&r will have to do!

Does anyone know if RimJob polices that sort of thing?

There's one guy "polishing my bullets" and another guy who "wants to hang" someone.

directly to the secret service.

http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm

I thought it meant that he was busy in the pursuit of the ancient art of masturbation.

One thing that can be true whether you are sad about McCain losing, or else (like me,) still trying to pretend the Cubs are going to the World Series.

Its always good when they are freaking out though.

That place will be awash with prophecies of doom, claims that the election was stolen, etc.

The doomsday scenarios are always really strange: stuff about "islamofascists" marching down our streets with tanks, and the US becoming a UN puppet.

Sometimes I wonder if the Freep exists in a parallel universe and we access it through some kind of a traversable wormhole.

"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of fear and hate, but of dumb. A journey into a mindless land whose boundaries are that of paranoia. That's the sign post up ahead, your next stop...The FReeper Zone!"

"...not only of fear and hate, but of dumb."

Thanks for taking a bullet for us. I wouldn't have walked through those woods. Brrr.

thanks for the links but no thanks, I don't have hand condoms, I'll take your word for it....

Stupid
Stupid
Stupid
Stupid
Stupid

Alan Keyes is "too refined" for the voters of Illinois!

I hope not! And what is Palin's caliber, anyway?

and that the bar hasn't been lowered because of this horrible experience!

.38 - 'cause she's special.

K&R.

After the election is over you can come out of your Mothers' basements and into the Light.

Discover the World is still here and enjoy what's left of the autumn colors.

...is how you can actually lurk over there long enough to post these threads. I would figure you'd probably have hemorrhaged yourself into the ER by now, what with all the acid and bile over there. I read ONE thread. ONE. The painful musings there alone were enough to ulcerate my stomach lining.

Shit, you must have bicarb shipped to your house by the trailer load.

We've haven't even had the third debate yet and they already wanna quit?
What a buncha wimps, saps and crybabies!


OK, their guy sucks ass and Americans would vote anybody except McMoron into office at this point.
And here I thought they would put up a better fight.
No matter, it's good that they're out of it. Maybe they'll encourage others to stay home in protest and we can pick up a swing state like MT or IN or WV.

"Hillary, can you save us?"----hahahahaha! After all the insults they sent at her, they're begging for her help?

PS: God their site is ugly and so...Netscape 2.0...Where's the embed, the stylish frames, the...java?
I feel like I've gone back 10 years in time.

It's like the world doesn't exist outside of their own little twisted world-view.

Ignorant, small-minded assholes who pervert religion to suit their own ends are just plain disgusting.

And I'm so disgusted. Thinly-veiled and not-so-thinly veiled racism.

What is it with their "if you express support for McCain you're a racist" crap? That makes no sense. I think they are STUPID to support McCain, but don't automatically assume folks are racist. Unless I read crap like over in freeperville. WOW. I really didn't think young Americans acted and thought that way anymore. That the racists were my parents age (they won't vote this year because they are racists Dems, don't get me started, it's a daily argument).

I'm ashamed for them.

They've lost most of the rational thinkers a long time ago. What's left are a bunch of anti-social ding-dongs and a few RNC minders who are tasked with getting the talking points out. The cognitive dissonance between their professed conservative principles and their mindless support of the organized crime party that has broken every tenant of these same principles is pathetic. You'd think that they'd be embarrassed for their obvious inability to make an informed decision when it comes to the supporting a corrupt party over their self interests. A bunch of tribal village idiots.

Makes my head hurt.

but I hope you used plenty of protection while you were gathering the info.

'Signed, sealed, & delivered'

I read a couple of the threads and the ignorance is just appalling. Found this little gem buried in the Claire McCaskill hatefest:

Obnoxious little twit, isn’t she?

And to think the ‘Pubbies rolled over and let her steal her seat in the Senate by allowing votes for her dead husband to be counted for her.

I dare say her dead husband was more of a decent man to go spitting on an earpiece.

This 'political expert' has McCaskill confused with Jean Carnahan. What a bunch of tools...

Accept your fate Freepers!!!

Some of the Freepers will go down fighting:

"John McCain is insane. I’m still voting for him, but he’s out of his freaking mind."

That post started a thread titled "CRAZY MCCAIN AND HIS MORTGAGE DEAL". They're still fuming about McCain's endorsement of a "socialistic" plan.

I give it a 10.

Julie

20 posted on 08/10/2008 06:58:02 by mikefive
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To: steve-b

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100390/posts

that was obviously an Animal House joke.

I just clicked on one of the threads, the one that asked "What scares you most about an Obama presidency?". It was hilarious! I couldn't believe how moronic those guys sound, its as if they have been asleep for the past 8 years. I guess that's what its like for people who are such mental midgets. One post said he was scared about the big deficits we'd get under Obama. Huh?? Has he taken a look at the budget under Bush???? Does he realize Clinton handed him a surplus?? A few posts said we would turn into Nazi Germany. LOL! We've moved closer to fascism under Bush than even the biggest neocons could have hoped for. The good thing about this campaign, and particularly as a result of the Palin pick, is the Republican party's various divisions are starting to crack. There is a small part of the party that is smart, and they are getting disgusted by how dumb their party has become and how they've come to embrace stupidity. I'm not saying that minority will change its ideology, but they are walking sideways away from the bulk of their party which is made up of uneducated inbred illiterates like those "Freepers".

hence, their view of reality is extremely warped.....what pisses me off is they remain in this state WILLFULLY - they could easily dispute the garbage they are fed but they don't because IT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR. Welcome to DU, WSN.

As a psych grad I love stuff like this.

Did you actually have to (shudder) *read through* the Free Republic to assemble all this?

Thanks for doing so I don't have to!

being a Republican at all is an exercise in denial. By definition, they are people who refuse to accept the evidence of their own senses. When have the Republicans EVER done anything good for the people of this country? They ALWAYS destroy the economy. They ALWAYS destroy our international credibility. They ALWAYS rig the taxes so most people get ripped-off in favor of the rich. They ALWAYS strip away basic entitlements and protections for human rights. They ALWAYS undermine workers in favor of owners. They ALWAYS rape the environment. And yet, there is this vast populace in America who blind themselves to all this, and vote for these jackals over and over and over.

I have really come to the conclusion that conservativism is a mental illness.

But I just can't seem to reach them.

awesome awesome

Made my day.

Why I Still Think McCain Will Win

Some of the responses are from the (relatively) sane FReepers who have moved on to "Acceptance" (though there are still plenty of "Denial" Kool-Aid drinkers).