Posted on 06/06/2002 9:57:11 PM PDT by 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
I hate it when I leave out words.
Just a general comment, sometimes I can't tell the excuses being made for President Bush's strange actions, from the excuses made by the Clinton supporters. Just a difference in names. Now if we do not hold our leaders to a higher standard than the other party does, we will have the same caliber leaders they have.
Thank you. Especially with my
Their function quickly changed from maintaining civility, to editorializing, didn't it?
Satire has always been embraced on FR...until now, apparently. It's a damned shame.
Power corrupts...especially, anonymous power.
I don't know, Reg.
I just don't know.
Eight years of Clinton crookery were preceeded by TWELVE years of Reagan/Bush -- just when does your "quite some time" start anyway? Clinton was obviously able to turn the big ship on a dime, so ....
There are times when the reins on the forum need to be tightened, and times when they need to be slackened. My observation over the years is that JimRob & the Mods exercise this flexibility quite well, albeit not perfectly.
Before criticizing the mods, please ask yourself this: how would YOU perform if YOU were in charge of the ZAP button?
I don't need an answer to this. But if you are honest with yourself, I suspect that you'd admit to being as "unfair" with that power as I would be. It takes remarkable restraint to resist zapping commentary that one simply disagrees with, although it is a necessary function to delete that which clearly crosses the "line".
Also there is a big difference between disruption and dissent.
Well stated.
And as someone else said earlier or on another thread, the Conservative agenda needs to start at the LOCAL level.
For what its worth, I don't believe the Bush-bashing on this forum is due to disrupters, although there may be some of that; rather the bashing seems to reflect what is going on in some quarters of the conservative media. I often disagree with the bashers, but that disagreement is an honest one on both sides.
That's what we heard about the '94 Revolution, "Just give us the majority in both Houses and you'll see change." Then the cold dash of water when we found out that not all *R's* really had the conservative agenda in mind (even though the House GOP all signed the Contract).
BTW, if Ashcroft and Lott had followed the Constitution instead of letting Bush talk them into *making things look good, like we're nice guys*, right now the GOP would have total control, Jeffords' jump would have been irrelevant. Sometimes you really do get what you wish for ...
Precisely.
There are a number of moderators: some good, some bad. Yours was probably pulled by the "uncool Admin Moderator", not the "cool" one.
And your thread was very funny! Look at it this way: it's now making a point far past the original intent. You're smarter than you realize ;-)
You do realize that there are mirror images of the clinton koolaide drinkers, don't you? Those who refuse to even acknowlege that there are any problems or areas for disagreement with the president or administration.
Refusal to arm pilots; huge increases in DoE and Farm subsidies; CFR...
IMO, the areas in which I disagree far outwiegh those in which I do agree at this point.
It sems that we have whiners complaining about the bashers who are complaining about the koolaid drinkers who are complaining about the "America haters" who are complaining about Bush's strays from the Conservative agenda. In the mean time, we're all complaining and not getting anything done except trying to silence those whose opinions we don't like.
I'm sure the ADL provides generous severance benefits.
Go Pat Go!
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