An Open letter to Jim Robinson: Can the Bush-Bashers

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[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

Dear Mr. Robinson,

I have been a loyal member of the Free Republic since before the 2000 election. I have been a Conservative since the early days of Clinton. When I found this site, I thought "Thank God, people who think like me." I have continued to think this until the more recent days. Now, it seems that there are threads left and right bashing our President.

Why? There are things the President has done which I don't agree with but my loyality still lies with him. I am not sure if these "Bush-Bashers" fail to see the reality that with politics comes comprimise or it is something worse. I feel there is a cancer in the Free Republic. Some are eating their own.

I feel that some of these people are members of the dreaded democratic underground disguised as disgruntled conservatives. They are only here to stir up trouble. What's worse, they are doing just that. I am not sure what I think you should do.

As a conservative, I believe in our moral code but I also realize the reality of politics. I back our President but if he were doing something unsavory (like lying under oath,) I could not support him. This is unlike the left's clintonista dogma. What President Bush is doing is not betraying the conservative cause. He is using politics to confound the left. Those who do not understand this are either leftists themself or unable to separate themselves from their zealousness.

This is your show. You choose who gets to be a member and who does not. Those who break your rules are banished from the kingdom. I am not discouraging free speech, but this is free speech in your forum. These Bush-Bashers are brining us down. When this infighting happened in 1992, Bill Clinton got elected. let's not let that happen again.

Yours,

Big Guy and Rusty 99

[WRhine]

but I think many are upset at our leadership, both civilian and military, acting like they are absolved of anything happening, that there is nothing they can do about it.

That's the way I interpret it. Nothing has been done to seal our borders, halt immigration from terrorist harboring nations or enforce our immigration laws yet they tell us that the chances of more terrorist attacks are 100% certain. I believe this underlies much of the anger people have when administration officals make apparent mea culpas for the next attack. What in God's Name Are they Doing about it?

[biffalobull]

Define conservative. Thanks

Good Buddy, I am not sure that I can anymore. In simple, grade three language, I guess it would be the exact opposite to anything resembling liberal dumcrats.Regards

[swarthyguy]

I think they had thicker skin in those days. And less accurate firearms.

[swarthyguy]

OUR FRIENDS AND ALLIES, THE SAUDIS

[Zon]

If you have a constructive criticism of the idea please identify what specific parts(s) you don't like and explain why you dislike it.

[Texasforever]

It's gettin late. I'm a bit tired and you just stepped on my last nerve. I live in Texas too. Maybe we are close enough to continue this discussion in person. I would dearly love to dare you to repeat the above quote to my face. That is unless you are a girl which, now that I think of it, you do sound like one.

Think long hard a seriously before you go any further. You are in very dangerous territory.

[swarthyguy]

Any DU lurkers on this thread are cracking up.

[nopardons]

Oh get over yourself. You used guttersnipe talk ; I didn't say foul language. You don't even know how you come off.Go read what you wrote to me. You bragged about how you battled, in an UNMODERATED forum on Yahoo. I know what that means, and you've brought only a somewhat less brutish style back with you , here.

Your " purity " , just as your supposed " principles " don't mean a thing, when they don't translate into gains in the REAL world. Your bloviations are thrice meaningless and insubstancial, when taken as a whole.

Your senseless name callings , are banal, petty, and unoriginal. Boring even.

[glorygirl]

"Update on Andy Card -- he was asked about those comments and he came right out and said they were fiction -- same as the blue rug Esquire said was on the floor of his office"

Hate to say this, but rugs can be moved.

[nopardons]

What an uadulterated crock !

Those, who you and your ilk take such pleasure in calling " BushBots " have not agreed 100% of the time , with 100% of what President Bush has said and done. They'll invade a thread, which shows great poll numbers, for the president , and trash / bash/ shred him , with their first post . Then should someone sau : " Hey, cut that out." ... they YELL : " BUSHBOT " , and worse. I have said that I didn't agree with something the president said / did, and STILL been called a " BushBot " and worse.

Get your facts straight, or be prepared to get told you are dead wrong ... and you are !

[VOA]

This is Jim Robinson's playground.
And he has wisely chosen to allow a full-and-free exchange of political opinion, as long
as it doesn't degenerate to full-blown ad hominem attacks.

Sometimes the Bush critiques get to me as well.
But I'd rather be in a forum where peole are free to raise issues (and I am free to "return fire")
than to be in a forum where people are impeded by a straight-jacket of excess civility.

Besides, even though Ross Perot is not a favorite around the Bush household(s),
just remember his quote:
"You can tell who's winnin' by whose whinin'!"

So, remember that when the attacks on Dubya (or other public figures) are at their
shrillest, it may just be the sound of frustration at their inability to
dissuade people from having faith in Dubya.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

true enough. like I said, it is his house and his rules. I think Bush-bashing is bad for conservatives. they go vote third party in the election and get 8 years of Billary. a house divided can not stand.

[Sabertooth]

They'll invade a thread, which shows great poll numbers, for the president , and trash / bash/ shred him , with their first post . Then should someone sau : " Hey, cut that out." ... they YELL : " BUSHBOT "

I'm curious about learning how to yell on a thread.

Is that part of the beta software?

[BikerTrash]

Think long hard a seriously...

Jeez, settle down. This is the internet, you're in no danger.

[nopardons]

I really don't care how you you see it ! It's a personal attack; nothing more ... nothing less, and a crude , LIBERAL tactic.

Tell me whom YOU favor / agree with and I'll find a name to call you , to vent MY ire. Fair is fair, after all. NO ?

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

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nice site until I asked directions to talk on the web!

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

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