and we DEBATED them, BEAT them, and sent them home crying for their Mama! We don't debate anyone anymore! We just zot them when they don't echo the prescribed line of thought. Is that easier? You bet! Is it right? NOPE! Not by a damned site in my book at least!
Freerepublic is not a debating society, it is an action oriented, activist site, think advancing conservatism, not endlessly debating the merits of abortion, and partial-birth abortion, after-birth abortion, and the benefits of the radical leftist homosexual agenda, and all the other fundamentals of the hard left.