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I missed the part that says this is a "socon" website...I signed up in 1998 because I was told it was a conservative website. I moved over here from the CNN boards when they kicked everyone out because the impeachment boards had become too contentious.

As I have been doing on many threads of late, I will continue to resist the attempts of "socons" to limit the definiton of conservatism to their view of social issues.

So far as the "get the hell of my party" stuff goes...that was my hamhanded attempt to illustrate a couple of points. I'm tired of "socons" telling anyone who doesn't follow thier agenda to the letter that they're "Rinos" and that they should be removed from the party. I thought it might be nice to see if thoem that dishes it out are them that can take it. What's good for the goose...

The other aspect of the conversation that precipitated my outburst is my anger towards my fellow party members who want to issue threats about "staying home" if they don't get a candidate who is 100% in agreement with thier social agenda. Fight the fight in the primaries, but when that fight is over, you need to close ranks with the party. If you aren't willing to commit to that...and you can bet I will vote for Hunter, Giuliani, McCain, Romney or anyone else who gets the nomination...than you should quit pretending to be a part of the Republican party and just go on off and form your own party. It's patently obvious that you don't care about the well being of the party as a whole, you just want to advance your agenda. I have no use for that kind of sunshine Republican.

As a side note...you tend to use the royal "we" quite a bit...did someone elect you the group spokesman for the "socon" cause? Are you Duncan Hunter?

I missed the part that says this is a "socon" website...
***Yes, it appears that you missed the "pro-life" thing, which was on my checklist when I joined. That's also one of the things I posted earlier and you casually overlooked it. So what else did you miss? Is it a big mystery to you why JimRob shows disdain for Rudy?

The other aspect of the conversation that precipitated my outburst is my anger towards my fellow party members who want to issue threats about "staying home" if they don't get a candidate who is 100% in agreement with thier social agenda.
***This is where you go off into the weeds. This assumption that it's 100% or nuthin'. Solibs like Rudy don't even give me 30%. Your statement is a tremendous exaggeration. This habit you have of hand-waving over what you read and then focusing on an exaggerated portion of it is called straw argumentation.

As a side note...you tend to use the royal "we" quite a bit...did someone elect you the group spokesman for the "socon" cause?
***Is that slot open? I'd like to throw my hat in the ring!

Skip's actions speak louder than his words. Here is what Skip Ripley says on his home page, while it's still up.

FreeRepublic.com has become little more than a bitchfest for disaffected social conservatives to whine about being ignored by the media, the evil RINOS and even thier pets. It's boring and dumb...so I'm out of here. Perhaps I'll come back in 2010

This was posted on another thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792854/posts

To: Kevmo; Jim Robinson
I wasn't going to post here...but you've given me such a concrete example of the stupidity I'm talking about that I really have no choice.

You have the gall to call me a "newfangled conservative" when you have no idea where I stand on any substantive issue within the conservative movement. The only thing you know about me is that I am critical of socons and thier attempts to fracture the party. So it has come to that. If you even criticize the folks who choose to call themselves "socons", you are not a real conservative.

Screw you

I am not a social conservative. I am a CONSERVATIVE. WE put Reagan in Washington and WE made the Contract with America a reality in 1994. WE kept the traitor John Kerry form becoming CIC.

No subgroup did that, the CONSERVATIVE movement did that.

Great site you have here Robinson...I hope it's turned into all you hoped it could be. Please delete my username

188 posted on 03/01/2007 7:07:51 AM PST by Skip Ripley
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