I think the person who started this thread has asked a legitimate question.
the question is reprehensible and offensive to conservatives and should have no place at FreeRepublic.
So, one of your defining characteristics for a “Conservative” is a person who finds the question “reprehensible and offensive.” Others need not consider themselves so? Others “should have no place” at FR?
I have no need for you or anyone else to define me. I’ll define myself, thank you. As for my place at FR, the establishment here can certainly kick me off anytime they please, but, you, sir, probably cannot.