Posted on 04/03/2007 7:24:18 PM PDT by Reaganesque
It is always disappointing to be reminded that there are people in the world who do not like you so much that they are willing to debase themselves and others in order to get their way. We, as conservatives face this from the Left on a day to day basis. But when such action comes from another supposed Conservative, that is truly disappointing.
The posters at DU think nothing of swearing and posting the most filthy, perverted and twisted things about their political rivals. We here at FR are, for the most part, better than that. At least we try to be. Unfortunately, there's always someone who proves that both sides have their ugly side.
I have posted a number of pro-Mitt Romney threads recently as have many others. I discovered this afternoon that several of them have been the victims of childish and down right purile dirty tricks. Now, political dirty tricks are nothing new and nor are they uncommon on either side of the aisle. But some simply cross the line of decency. Such is the case with whomever played their little game of messing with the Keywords on these Pro-Romney threads. Here are four examples:
Romney Tops Republicans in Fundraising
KEYWORDS: ANTICHRIST; CULT; FUNDRAISING; MITTRAPESCHILDREN; ROMNEY; Click to Add Keyword
Why I Think You Should Vote For My Dad
KEYWORDS: 2008; ELECTIONPRESIDENT; ELECTIONS; MITTBEATSHISKIDS; MITTISTHEANTICHRIST; ROMNEY; Click to Add Keyword
Parsing the Polls: Answering the Mormon Question
KEYWORDS: CULT; JOEYSMITHDELUSION; Click to Add Keyword
KEYWORDS: ELECTION; FRED; FREDTHOMPSON; MITTISTHEANTICHRIST; ROMNEY; THOMPSON; VP; Click to Add Keyword
People, campaigning can be a hard and painful thing. You have to have a thick skin to run for office and heaven knows, all candidates take their blows, some more than others. But there is such a thing as decency. And this little prank doesn't just cross that line, it obliterates it.
Disagree with the thread? Fine. Present your arguments. You don't like the candidate? Great. Tell me why and make an attempt at intelligent conversation. That's the way this place is supposed to work. But, resorting to such sophomoric, vulgar and quite frankly bigoted childishness is beneath contempt. If you can't manage a reasonable level of maturity, then there's a whole bunch of like minds over at DU you can have fun with.
And the HELP page(s) are for the information you just posted, so why are you posting it here?
If you have an opinion, that is what the comment area is for.
Just a suggestion, can the keywords be made "invisible" to the average viewer, but still be put someplace so that keyword searches still work? This would probably get rid of these almost pointless keywords (then again, freepers could unwittingly try to add the same keyword multiple times).
Oh stop already with the insinuations that established freepers are trolls, will you?
beg your pardon? Huh?
Who is forcing you to read my posts?
Who knew I was so powerful.
Enjoy your liberal new site (and your liberal NEW PARTY too)!!!
Rudy is the most forceful candidate in the race.
He has a long history of standing up to the race hustlers, the arab sheiks, the arafats of this world.
He took down the mob, ran the pornographers out of family neighborhoods in NYC, got Times Square from a sewer to a jewel, visited by people from all over the world.
He took on the so called artists who would put elephant dung on a sculpture of Madonna.
And you’re ‘worried’ that he’d have to be more forceful.
Give me a break. You are totally disingenuous, and I suspect you know it.
Bump.
That's why some freepers calling for the deaths of all Muslims are not as offensive as they could be, and it isn't racist.
It still is very offensive and a bad idea, btw.
I had never heard of wideawakes before. I just went over there and looked at the names of the posters and it all makes sense now.
Probably almost every freeper has another freeper who considers him to be a "DU troll."
And as for your tagline, Christians believe in God, Jews also believe in God, but refuse to recognize God in God's entirety, and Muslims believe in Allah, a manmade construction with some similarities to the Biblical God along with aspects of pagan gods.
So you believe that the God of the Old testament is just an incomplete God? And you call yourself a Christian? ROFLOL And you have the audacity to say that Mormons aren't Christian? What makes your 'god' any different than the Muslim God of Abraham?
Interesting point, but in the general they would not just disqualify, but defeat them.
Which is one more reason we can save ourselves a lot of trouble.
This is the primary season, and Mitt, Newt, Rudy, Mc Cain, have all been shot down, blue on blue. Is this doing the Dems work for them, or is it doing our work for us?
There is no way we will come up with a winning candidate if the Dems can shoot them down, and you can bet the Hillary excavators are digging every hint of dirt, anything they could possibly use on all potential candidates.
What else would we expect from the crew who stole over 900 FBI raw data files on leading Republicans and fed them into the DNC computers via a LAN from the White House? We had better expose our candidates weaknesses, every one and decide if they are ones we can not only live with, but win with--well before the general, or they will use those same weaknesses to mop the floor with our people in November of '08.
can you conceive of the fact that not everyone views rudy the same way you do? to disagree with his policies, to think he is NOT the best candidate is not to hate him. Smokin’ joe’s posts on this thread have presented the most cogent, rational and reasonbale accounting, in my opinion, of what those of us who oppose rudy feel. he said it without vitriol, without venom and without any snideness. if one cannot accept what he has said and just say, “hey, i guess we just disagree on this” but instead find fault with what he is saying, then i think that is a problem. oldfriend you and i have spoken quite cordially in the past. you and i disagree rather strongly on rudy giuliani. i don’t think you are a troll, but i have been taken aback at the tenor and tone of some of your posts. no doubt you have felt similarly about mine. i think there comes a point when people just have to realize WE DO NOT SEE RUDY THE SAME WAY THAT YOU DO. that doesn’t make us wrong, and it doesn’t make you wrong. everyone looks at these things through the prism of their own judgments and views. To many here, rudy is unacceptable as our nominee. The reasons have been posted ad infinitum. We are simply not persuaded by the things you are persuaded by and then, inevitably, our failure to perceive him in the same way means we are unappeasable, religious nutjobs, or just HATERS. none of it is true, and you must know that.
Total B.S.
So disrespectful to Ground Zero victims too.
Sorry, but I am correct.
And you should see what he calls pathetic. It’s pathetic :-)
Good to see you, BlackIrish. The Rudy-haters are in full meltdown mode.
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