RM, I've seen some disgusting posts from you in the past, but this one comes close to making you one of the lowest of bottom feeders. You should be the last to criticize these conservatives. Your posts are usually filled with hate and vitriol for anyone who doesn't share you extremist views of the world. Peach has been one of the great researchers here and a tremendous supporter of our troops and the war on terror. MiaT has offered much in the way she puts a professional touch to this forum. Both make you look like the pathetic whiner you are.
Jim, I see the purge continues. Well, you may as well put me in that group because of my disgust for what is going on here. You set up Free Republic as a forum for conservative thought and debate. I began to see the change when you permitted the infamous "treasonous liberal" thread to remain without a comment. I told you then that if you didn't return some civility to this forum it would get worse. And now, unfortunately, it has. I've lost track of how many you have banned in the last couple of days, but banning MiaT and Peach for their support of Giuliani is simply pathetic.
Oh yes, I've seen their little indiscretions referred to by several of your cheerleaders here, but they pale to the kind of rhetoric used by those who have the absolute audacity to call themselves "conservative", but who, just like RM here, swim in the sea of extremism.
Your statement to a conservative poster who has contributed here for years still rings: "Up yours, ***wipe". Is this the God-fearing Christian conservative standards you set up for this forum?
Most of those posters you banned had just as strong a moral value system as you and those dittoheads who run around here professing their conservatism ever had.
You may want to re-read this pathetic thread and ask yourself if this is what you intended when you started it. If you are the same Jim Robinson who started this forum and fought so valiantly for Clinton Administration accountability, then I believe the answer must be no.
These threads no longer add anything to the debate, but merely provide for a verbal shooting gallery. People who support your position can say anything with impunity any more, regardless of the truth or civility. More and more profanity from your cheerleaders is excused as "heat of battle", while those who support a candidate you don't must walk on eggs.
Well, as I've been told so often, it's your forum. You set the rules. But my last recommendation to you before my zot is to remember who looks at this forum and uses it to bash the Republican Party. Because you are losing a tremendous amount of intellectual prowess, both by banning and by self imposed exile, you are eliminating the balance that made it the website to wake up to.
Now, it will continue withdrawing into itself as more and more weighted in favor of extremism of every category. But you will not lose readers, as more and more from the left will use it for what it will be offering. They must convince the electorate that the Republican Party is controlled by the far right, and you now offer them that.
My parting thought to everyone else here who might read this is that no matter who is elected next year, there will be at least 2 USSC justice resignations, and we are 1 away from a conservative majority.
Take care, all.
My point exactly.
Good day, sir.
And I want to commend you, not joking, for writing a well thought out piece. Most of the libs here write one sentence or an insult driven post. While you may think myself or others are extremist, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were called the same. I supported both of them.
I cannot allow my party to become a clone of the true liberal/socialist party. That means the fight is on. I am sorry we disagree. I wish you the best.
Weer sew stoopid, we kin onlee git in the Armee?
Senator Kerry, is that you?
Peach wasn’t suspended because she supports Guiliani, and I think you know that. She got as obnoxious as she could with the topic of conservatism and pushed the envelope with the very person who could suspend her. She got exactly what she asked for — nothing more, nothing less. My only surprise what that it took as long as it did. I don’t revel in her suspension or banishment, but I certainly understand and support it.
And long overdue it is. This forum has been a tool of the GOP long enough. PURGE! PURGE! PURGE!
And should the GOP nominate Rudy, that chance is totally gone no matter who is elected POTUS.
Yeah, yeah I know Rudy promised to nominate originalist justices; however, I have serious doubts as to whether he even knows what that means and ZERO confidence that he intends to keep his promise if he does.
I believed GHWB far more than I will ever believe Rudy and I remember the result of "Read my lips, no new taxes."
"Because you are losing a tremendous amount of intellectual prowess, both by banning and by self imposed exile, you are eliminating the balance that made it the website to wake up to."
intellectual prowess? YUP thats what dem dere liburuls call it when they supoort those homosexualized agendas and abortion choices...
Good Bye & Good Riddance!