Posted on 04/20/2005 9:22:15 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
I'll keep this short and simple. After six years of membership on FR I've decided to resign from the forum today. I'll keep checking my freepmail for a few days and wind down my posts here, so if any of you wish to contact me please do so there and I will provide you with a means to do so. I hope to continue future posting activities elsewhere - perhaps a blog - but only time will tell.
It's truly been a blast and left me with many fond memories, but all good things had to come to an end. My favorites comprise a long list, the most noted being the exposition of Rathergate, leading freeps of Algore in the 2000 recounts, protesting Hildebeast's book tour, and giving her impeached husband a freeper's welcome to Texas on several of his visits. Thank you to all who made these events fun and entertaining. Unfortunately the past few months have made it clear to me that FR and I are drifting apart on key issues of conservatism. I'll spare the details, pausing only to state that it isn't just the usuals like illegal immigration, but also things like religion, the culture of political correctness, an overall decline in reasoned civil conversation that used to flourish here, and the purposes and uses of the site in general. More concerning, for the past few months I have been unable to even obtain rational discourse and commentary on many routine threads and issues without being personally maligned and attacked - many times out of the blue and on topics unrelated to the given thread - by a small, petty-minded, and vitriolic group of posters who conduct themselves in a manner unbefitting of what this forum used to be when I joined in 1999, and do so with apparent impunity.
I also find that I simply don't have the time to post as much as I once did, and regrettably so.
I'll leave it at that, as my fond memories outweigh the unpleasant ones. A time arises when parting courses on friendly terms is best before something less desirable arises. Therefore I have volunteered my resignation. To everyone who has made my FR experience enjoyable, I thank you and wish you only the best.
I think you just blew any hopes of buying his screen name.
I give it a week. You'll be back.
But, do us all a favor, just admit you couldn't live without it, and come back with your original screen name. Don't pick a new one (as I have the last five times...)
And?
Not sure if you've been pinged to this yet- may want to alert your lists.
Sounds like the George Carlin solution to idiotic drivers - give everyone a dart gun to shoot at offenders, and if there are 10 a##h_le darts on your car, your car gets impounded.
In the words of Liam Lynch, "Yeah, whatever!"
Very little involvement in Schivo discussions. I'd say zero, but that would not be literally true.
You could have checked for yourself. ;-)
heehee, it was more of a comment in general about how a website can become so much bigger than it really is.....to all of us
Well pal, for 4 years, I've been sliced, diced, smacked, spit on, backhanded, bludgeoned and knifed by:
* Country clubbers
* Grover Norquist Jr. bootlickers
* Big tenters
* Overt Liberals
* RINOs
* Legalists
* Small minded shills for entrenched incompetence
* Corporatists who are GOP only as a matter of convenience, but in a way, are our worst enemies.
* Etc.
Have I quit? NO! Have I undergone two, count 'em, two, suspensions due to smackdowns with said factionalists? YES!!
I am sorry, but you'll gain no sympathy from me. Don't let the door hit you in the posterior.
Why fight battles you know you sure-wins?? no growth there, IMHO
Quitters never win and winners never quit.
True. But when you said you did, it was easier to type "And?"
#50 seems to agree. I think you're both on to something.
Sometimes you have to cut the cord in order to get back your sanity, sort of like divorce, no matter how much you love some one or something sometimes it is best to just remove yourself and reflect about the situation.
Goodbye. Friend.
It's been a blast but it's time
to say goodbye (GOPcap's opus Huh? You're leavin'?? :^O
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest or Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.
Dang Partner. You are one of the best writers on serious conservatism here.
There is no Clown Posse for us to go to and hang out like the NeoCons have.
I agree exactly with your sentiments and observations but wish you would reconsider.
OK, then. See you around.
The capitalist economic system gives all consumers two option of expressing their use of a product in addition to consumption itself: the tools of voice and exit. I've exercised voice in the past. Now I'm choosing exit. Since neither directly concerns or burdens your person or imposes upon your life in any way, go troll somewhere else.
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