The anti-Palinista purge continues at Free Republic

The most prominent victim is "BobJ". BobJ's crime?

He posited the following question to his fellow Freepers on January 8, 2010:

Question for Palinistas. What will you say when...
...Palin endorses John McCain?

Top ten...

1) She's just "playing the game". Standing on principle and voting the RINO's out is fine as long as it doesn't interfere with Sarah becoming prez.

2) If Sarah says supporting RINO's is okay, that's good enough for me. The Messiah is infallible and what do I know?.

3) She's not being inconsistent, she's making a tactical retreat, but hey that's politics.

4) A smart move by the smartest woman in the world.

5) She didn't want to but the dims threatened to file an ethics complaint if she didn't.

6) She's not quiting, she's reloading.

7) What endorsement? That wasn't an endorsement she was repaying a political favor. Everyone does it.

8) That was part of her master plan to make dims and the MSM fear her even more...if that's even possible.

9) C'mon, McCain wasn't THAT bad...

10) Who cares? Look at those LEGS!

Low and behold, on January 20, the impossible happened and the Mad Hatter declared her support for McCain!

As Allahpundit put it:

Dude, I think this officially makes her a RINO.

Welcome to the club, Sarahcuda!

BobJ made some more prescient observations:

...the Palin worship is so thick here anything she says or does will be given the stamp of approval by her blind worshippers and all dissenting opinion will be crushed.

As long as Palin is viewed as a messiah we will not be able to keep her in check as we did with Bush on Shamnesty and Meyers.

That’s bad.

Yes, yes it is. But as I found out in December 2009, Free Republic has gone over the cliff into full blown Palin hysteria. The mob mentality is disturbing. The cult hero worship of Palin is just sheer lunacy.

So just what did BobJ get banned for? Posting a picture of the Jonesville aftermath -- the perfect analogy for Palin's worshipers. Click here to see it yourself.

BobJ only lasted as long as he did because this was BobJ's Freeper resume:

I've been called a "newbie", so...

Joined Free Republic shortly after it's debut [1997], my registration is #39. Helped organize the first FR Chapter in Los Angeles and the first three large FReeper rallies in DC; the March for Justice, Judgement Day Rally and House Managers Rally. Organized and supervised the Forum Advisory Board until it was destroyed by the FOC in 2002. Set up and is the Executive Producer of Radio FreeRepublic. Incorporated the Free Republic Network in 2002 and presently I sit on it's Board of Directors.

BobJ was hardly a troll.  This was someone highly involved in Free Republic and someone Jim Robinson knew personally. He was just a conservative sickened by the Kool Aid Palin cult that Free Republic has degenerated into.

I don't know how to contact BobJ but consider this post my way of saying Bravo, sir, Bravo!

Update: 2/11/2010 7:27 pm PST:
BobJ is back at Free Republic but skating on thin ice with JimRob.  Apparently his account had been banned yesterday but it's back again today. Click here for a lengthy discussion between him and Jim Robinson.