Posted on 08/26/2002 9:57:23 AM PDT by mercy
Giving priority to what is most important, I have decided to swallow my pride. I had a dustup with a moderator. I lost. Though I think the moderators need a tuneup they ain't so bad really. I depend on them to keep this site from becomming a free for all whacko hate site. I used to push the abuse button quite frequently on my fave undesirables ... anti-semite, haters. I notice they're a bit thin around here lately.
It is most important that Free Republic live and thrive. It is less important that I get things my way around here. Though I do not agree completely with the proposition that it is Jim's site and he can do with it what he damn will pleases ... It's as much our site, collectively, as it is his now. Perhaps Jim does ride herd a bit too hard on this creation he gave birth to. Fact is I don't know. I simply don't have enough information.
But it is a given that FR is the best there is at what it does. If it's only my morning paper and a place to exercise my verbal skills ... it's worth supporting. Now is the time for all level headed thinking FReepers to come to the aid of our wounded friend ... Free Republic.
The first principle of any party apparatus is to perpetuate itself. It is up to the electorate to move a party in a particular direction and it is up to the individual to organize and to sway the party and the electorate.
It makes no sense for a freedom thinker to leave a party -- the R party -- where most Freedom thinking people are concentrated. That would only cause a dilution of the Freedom thinkers as they tranverse party lines.
The problem is not the party -- the problem is the electorate and the solution lies with the indiviudal to change the R party and the electorate using the powers of the already entrenched Freedom thinking people in the R party.
For how amny years did the Dems run both or at least the Senate and the White House, in the last 60 + years ? Don't attempt refutation, with solophistic, spurious demogogeray. I may have been born at night; but, it certainly wasn't last night. Pull that garbage on those whp don't know much; that won't wash with me. :-)
You are exactly right, Larry, we have nothing to discuss.
,,, or to be less succinct, "a writer beyond our financial means".
If that is the first principle of the party apparatus, then the party apparatus should never be supported. A properly functioning party would be a means of consolidating people of homogeneous principles and pooling resources so that they can be more effective at electing people who will uphold the stated principles during the governing process. It is my responsibility as an individual to seek out the party that advocates the principles I hold dear. And, if none can be found, then I should refrain from supporting any of them. Perhaps working to build a new party if there is sufficient consensus among others in the population.
It makes no sense for a freedom thinker to leave a party -- the R party -- where most Freedom thinking people are concentrated. That would only cause a dilution of the Freedom thinkers as they tranverse party lines.
It makes no sense for a freedom lover to continue supporting the Republican party, which is anethema to the principles of liberty. The last 12 months of Republican national leadership make it extremely clear that they are entirely hostile to the principles of liberty and individual rights. They don't even stand in support of such traditional issues as pro-life, limited government or state sovereignty.
The problem is not the party -- the problem is the electorate and the solution lies with the indiviudal to change the R party and the electorate using the powers of the already entrenched Freedom thinking people in the R party.
Bush made it clear during the election that he didn't need, nor want, the support or advice of conservatives. He's got his own agenda and it is in direct contradiction to the the values I hold dear. That is why I will not support him.
Yes, that seems to be what you are serving.
For how amny years did the Dems run both or at least the Senate and the White House, in the last 60 + years ? Don't attempt refutation, with solophistic, spurious demogogeray. I may have been born at night; but, it certainly wasn't last night. Pull that garbage on those whp don't know much; that won't wash with me. :-)
You've always got some excuse why the Republicans need to cave in -- just one more time. I've heard it from you and your kind a thousand times. Then, when called on it, you get all defensive and start yelling and calling names. Boo-hoo-hoo. The fact is that the R's are not capitulating to the D's. They are getting exactly what they want -- which just happens to be the SAME THING as the D's. Power. More power. Federal power. Taxes. More taxes. Total control. A police state.
I think your tinfoil needs changing, BTW.
,,, setting up crossword puzzles for inclusion in the New York Times won't necessarily make somebody famous. I know I'm jumping to conclusions in saying this, but over the last half hour or so I've decided to become a writer too.
See what I mean? You instantly resort to personal attacks when you know your position is bankrupt. Tsk-tsk. You're rather less than competent as a party apologist. One would think with all the practice you've been getting, you could at least do a bit better job.
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