“Posters who are not conservative don’t benefit FR or the conservative movement. They need to be removed.”
Why not try to persuade them? No, removal and the resultant celebratory spiking of the ball for their removal does not advance the conservative cause. It may be fun to some people, but it does not represent rational championing of conservative principles.
It’s too often pointless political cannibalism, and represents a loss of opportunity to utilize reason and logic and conservative values in changing minds.
Simple. You do not advance conservatism by becoming more liberal. People posting on FR to promote a liberal like Romney aren't looking to 'learn', they're looking to get all the good conservatives here to fall in line behind the big (R).
In case you didn't notice, this site isn't a Republican site. It is a site for conservatives.
Anyone can read here and be persuaded by the many brilliant conservative posters here.
But when someone comes on to obviously promote liberalism guised under the elitist entrenched idea of conservatism, it is sniffed out immediately by those who know better.
With all the info on here, they already know it. And they have chosen.
FR is an activist site and not meant for debating liberal leaning posters. Actually, they ARE hit with info before their zot. Their arguments for someone that is contrary to conservative principles is what gets them zotted.
And then there are the paid operatives and lib trolls.
Why not try to persuade them?
How many woebegone moderates and liberals have you successfully persuaded? Betcha it's very few, to none.
After finding my way home to true conservatism, I spent years trying to persuade moderates and liberals that ours is the superior, right way. It was almost always a fool's errand. In time, I realized that the journey to true conservatism is a personal one.
As the old folks used to say, 'you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."
FR has a very precise mission and purpose for being. What it IS NOT, is a place to debate with moderates and liberals until we finally persuade them that ours is the superior way. If you want to do that, I invite you to join any number of wide open political forums where conservatives who are so inclined, do just that.
It’s too often pointless political cannibalism, and represents a loss of opportunity to utilize reason and logic and conservative values in changing minds.
Surely you jest. You're a smart guy, you know full well the difference between someone who is misinformed but willing to learn, and someone who is proseltyzing or disrupting with leftist/RINO/libertarian views. Who exactly are you trying to fool?