[My GOP]

What were the flame wars? That was before I joined?

[onyx]

That's when we eviscerate one another.

[WalterSkinner]

IMHO, have a common denominator: A FReeper who tries to hijack FreeRepublic.com as his personal venue of leadership or fame, or is dead set on insinuating his or her view on all others and "destroying" or excluding infidels. Seems such a thing never fails to bring a withering assault of flaming posts as all guns are brought to bear, to the consternation of whatever followers said FReeper may have managed to gather to him or herself. I'll name no names, but there have been a couple of Flame Wars that were doozies. At times it was hard to keep up with all the opuses. =)

..from the FR Dictionary

[PhiKapMom]

Buchanan/Keyes versus Bush flame wars got really nasty and lot of name calling. This is mild, very mild compared to those days. Bunch of lies posted over and over again and when you posted facts, they got really nasty. That's when we were all on dial-up and took forever to post.

In the Recall threads we had the same thing as social conservatives, some of them on this thread, came after all of us for daring to support Arnold against Gray Davis. It got so bad one night that one of the guys told me in Freep Mail to quit posting as he was afraid we were going to be banned and he took over what I was saying. Some of the same group were whining then too.

These are tame compared to those threads. Back in those days you had to be able to take it and also dish it out or you would be clobbered. I don't use profanity in real life so I haven't used it on here.

This is kumbaya compared to those days!

Get a good night's sleep -- tomorrow is another day for finding more good info on Rudy!