Glad to hear it, I truly am. Most FReepers are sensible like you are. There are a couple of notable exceptions. What they are doing is despicable.
...as long as he can control his tendency to be openly, bitterly critical of President Bush, I'd be thrilled if he was a senator.
Y'all have always way overstated the case in this regard. Top Bush leaders in the White House have certainly not shared your opinion of the nature of Alan's sometime disagreements with admin policy.
I'm sitting here, watching a Keyes supporter repeatedly lie, taunt, and race bait someone -
I haven't seen a single lie. Plenty of taunts, which the poster certainly draws upon themselves. As to race baiting? They asked a simple question, a reasonable one under the circumstances...and as usual received no reasonable reply.
...while no other Keyes supporters had so much as a comment about it.
Some can't resist fighting fire with fire.
And you exclusively blame people who don't think Keyes will win for the tone of this thread?
Yes. The maliciousness of the anti-Keyesters here is legendary, and has reached a new low. You are a reasonable person and know that nopardons posts since this story broke are awful. You know that Common Tator's malicious slander on this thread are indefensible.
I think you're more reasonable than that.
I think you know that this hatred for Alan is unreasonable and warped.
The lie is this continuing taunt that those who believe Keyes is at a disadvantage and cannot win are "cheerleading" for Obama. (There are no people here who could legitimately and sincerely be characterized as Obama supporters, that I have seen.) I repeatedly asked for an example of such behavior last night, and was mocked by the individual pushing that nonsense. Undaunted, he/she continued pushing it, and continues pushing it this evening.
I'm not asking you to comment further - I'm just clarifying, since you didn't know what I was referring to.