Should the word "FREE" be taken out of Free Republic?

[Renew Deal]

Poll question: Should the word "FREE" be taken out of Free Republic?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1158895&mesg_id=1158895

[sproutster]

1. As should republic ... If their definition came from civics

Republic: form of government based on a constitution, in which decisions are made by elected or appointed officials in a democratic manner.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=9&oi=define&q=http://www.historycentral.com/Civics/R.html

[BlooInBloo]

6. Damn - you beat me to it! lol

freerepublic is kinda like the Holy Roman Empire - LOLOL

[pnorman]

2. they can call themselves any damn thing they care to.

But as for myself, I've never referred to them in any other manner than: "FREAK REPUBLIC".

pnorman

[Lefty48197]

3. I think FreakRepublicans.com works best.

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[LiberalEsto]

4. Replace Free with the word Soviet

Stalin would be proud of Our Chimp

[DFLer4edu]

5. Other: An element of Style

The word, "free" should be removed from their name and they should hire a decorator, but I have never understood why DUers surf over there in the first place. The only reason I know what their site looks like is because people keep putting links in their threads on the latest freeper theory. Here's a theory for you, if you stopped reading what they had to say I could stop clicking your links and we could all be free from their poor concept of a Republic. You've all clearly been spending way too much time over there. You've started capitalizing the letters F and R in the oxymoronic name, "the free republic." That's bad grammar. The Elements of Style (the most widely read book on English grammar, something the freepers would know if the republican party had bothered to fully fund their education) states that in this context "the free republic" should be written " " the fRee rEpubLIC" " Please note that the double quotations are not accidental and if " the fRee rEpubLIC" is not placed in quotations people will think that you take " the fRee rEpubLIC" seriously. Then maybe we could all get back to winning in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. I'll settle for that now, but if we're all still around we're going to need to do some work in 2021. The " the fRee rEpubLIC" isn't going to be the only relic, so is the republican party. Let's make that because we kick their asses and not because they have simply acknowledged that they are indeed fascists.

[Cleita]

7. After todays disclosures about our newly minted

gestapo's tracking of all citizens, I think the word "free" should be taken out of the "Star Spangled Banner".

[DFLer4edu]

8. I can see the headline now

NSA Picks Up Phone Call Between Two Democrats: They Are Against Freedom