Last night was a bad night for Freepers. They were excited to see Senator Clinton lose again to Senator Obama and that didn't happen. Instead, Hillary achieved a "stunning victory" (reality check: the two Senators effectively tied for first place).
Freepers also desperately love Fred Thompson. Sadly for them, Thompson's showing was pathetic. Ron Paul effectively tied for fourth place with Rudy Giuliani each of which got nearly an order of magnitude more votes than Thompson. That's gotta hurt because both Paul and Giuliani are fiercely despised by most Freepers.
According to
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950821/posts">The Daily FRead, a daily Free Republic posting of Fred Thompson campaign news, "They were voting in New Hampshire, but Fred Thompson was stumping in South Carolina." This is taken from what is supposed to be a pro-Fred posting, but it makes the guy sounds like a senile old man who doesn't know where he's supposed to campaign. I had to reread the sentence because I thought "stumping" was "stumbling" the first time through. In the unlikely event that he wins the nomination, should we look for Thompson to take his campaign on the road in Canada?
The hottest topic, of course, is Hillary Clinton's surprise first-place finish in the primary. That's a hot topic here, too, but the discussions here are reality-based. It's sorta like how New York City is a much different place in the
Spider Man or
Men In Black movies than it is to people who experience it in our world.
First of all, you have to understand that in the Freeper Universe, Bill and Hillary Clinton are the rulers of an all-powerful "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=shadowparty">Shadow Party." This evil consortium is funded by George Soros and provides the secret marching orders that
really determine what happens in the Democratic Party. The ultimate goal of this secret cabal is to raise taxes (just to punish the rich) and force everyone into gay marriages. As one Freeper helpfully
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950450/posts?page=47#47">points out:
The HUGE underlying current here that EVERYONE seems to be missing is that the GAY LEFT now sees Hillary as thier ONLY hope for the “Gay Civil Rights” agenda (whatever that is)...
They make up a HUGE part of the Shadow Party itself...
Obama is seen as HOMOPHOBIC, and for the Establishment Dems, that cannot be toerated...
47 posted on 01/08/2008 2:07:49 PM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
As you can see, this is one of the geniuses who believes that there is a credible danger that America may fall under the control of the control of a radical Islamic element that could barely control Afghanistan — and that was with support from Pakistan.
The point is that the Freepers believe that Hillary Clinton is secretly in control of the whole process and is going to win the nomination regardless of what happens. As Freeper
Resolute Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1950830/posts?page=2#2">explains, Hillary had this all planned out, including the media coverage which she controls through the "Shadow Party":
I have my suspicions that all the negative press, like the Post story about her starting to panic were plants by her to give her momentum coming out of NH where she knew she’d win. The tide had changed overnight and if so was a brilliant move.
Never, never underestimate the lengths they will go to to win especially know that Serpenthead and Forehead are back from the pit.
2 posted on 01/09/2008 7:56:00 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
"Serpenthead" and "Forehead" are references to James Carvill and Paul Begala, respectively.
By far the most popular theory as to how Hillary beat expectations is through voter fraud. There are a lot of fairly obvious speculations, including that she bussed in people from New York state, but by far the most intriguing comes from
IrishMike who appears to claim that crying is voter fraud:
She won the same way John Kerry won, with a little voter fraud for insurance.
Remember this........
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry burst into tears while campaigning in New Hampshire in 2004 when an unemployed mother spoke about how hard it is educating her kids. Mr. Kerry choked up and had to wipe tears from his eyes. He won the New Hampshire primary and the Democratic nomination.
6 posted on 01/09/2008 8:17:43 AM PST by IrishMike (Liberalism is Jihad from within)
As far as the title of this post goes, there are a lot of posts that claim Obama to be a "token black" candidate; these posters speculate openly that if expectations for Obama get too high, there may be race riots when he inevitably loses the nomination to Hillary. Threads discussing Obama are rife with claims that Democrats are terrible racists. Freeper
Edward Watson http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950655/posts?page=26#26">points out, "How many times have we heard Democrats condemn Republicans and conservatives of being racist while they live in black-free neighborhoods?" That's an actual Freeper argument. (Interestingly,
Edward Watson's tagline is "Fanatics with guns beat liberals with ideas" which I assume is his explanation of why Freepers beat "liberals.")
In the context of Obama's predicted victory, some alternately wondered if Hillary would accept Obama's VP spot with the intention of killing him after the election and assuming the Presidency.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950778/posts?page=57#57">This post nicely combines these elements:
Chris Rock has a monologue which serves as a reminder for why Obama will not be the VP nominee. He boldly proclaims he’d shoot the President if it would make a black man president (at the time, he seemed to be talking about Powell). He figured he’s spend life in jail, but would be a rule the prison as a hero.
He was joking, but some might take the point he made seriously.
Oh yeah... that and the fact that the Democratic Party would never let one of their slaves actually run the plantation.
57 posted on 01/09/2008 7:21:26 AM PST by dangus