[.38sw]

You pose excellent questions, you good points. Jim, I consider myself one of those "broken glass" Republicans described by Peggy Noonan in that I would have crawled on my lips over broken glass to vote for George W. Bush. Yet I vehemently disagree with a number of his policies and proposed policies. Example: he recently proposed providing taxpayer dollars (my hubby and I pay a huge amount to the federal governement) to help minorities buy houses. ??!! We are both in our forties, been married nearly ten years, and just Aug. 1 were able to close escrow on our first home (which was the result of a great deal of hard work and sacrifice). And yet, here is President Bush proposing using OUR MONEY to help OTHER people buy homes simply because they aren't white! I suppose I'm racist now, too. I also oppose his appointment of "underperformin'" Norman Mineta to be head of transportation, and Christy Todd Whitman to head the EPA. HOWEVER, I wholeheartedly support President Bush's proposal to manage our National Forests. I hope you would not ban me or delete my posts for opposing some of his policies and appointments.

[Neets]

I don't think JimRob means that by simply oppossing or disagreeing with the President means you are not welcome here.

We all know what the agenda of the Liberal side is...remember just last week or the week before, the media was hell bent on trying to convince us that Bush was backing away from support of Simon...and lo and behold, here he was just this very weekend, joining in the campaign...

So people who jump on here, and start calling Bush names, and attacking him, calling him a traitor to the party, a sell out for abandoning the party who elected him, based on this Liberal cabal is the type of thing that is not allowed...nor should it be.

Disagreeing, and following up on that disagreement with factual, well thought out, RESPECTFUL and reasoned facts is surely allowed.

I respectfully submit that simply by using common sense, a level head, and reasoned and well thought out words , your point will go further in getting your point across.

[habs4ever]

Is there anyone on FR that likes Norm Mineta? lol....

[gracie1]

I remember that thread. It was perfect proof that one can criticise without bashing. It was a hot thread for the whole day and to my knowledge it didn't get pulled or any reasonable poster banned. Most of the posters banned have been nutcases or crybabies. The ones who go to other sites and cry censorship are the biggest crybabies of all.