Need we be quite so rigid, my FRiend?! Seriously, we come to FR.com to enjoy conversations and debates with folks on any number of issues, and I've found many folks who are not nearly as conservative as me on some issues, but even moreso on others (rarely). And I've learned from these folks and hope they've derived something from our debates as well.
That said, there are many lurkers who may benefit from seeing their liberal ideas debated and debunked. Having a few polite Lib'rals to play off against can enliven the debate, and help us to hone our skills.
FReegards...MUD
Why don’t blonde RATs like to make Kool Aid?
Because they can’t fit eight cups of water in those tiny packets...
Quite a number of FREEPERS were once Dems,before they woke up.They didn't come here when they were Liberals,though,and neither did they try to convert the rest of us.
People who want other views,can and do go off to LP,FU,and even to DU.
As I said,FR is for Conservatives and there is a big enough range here,that lurkers will get all kinds of different views.FR doesn't need Liberals;polite ones nor incivil ones.
Need we be quite so rigid, my FRiend?!
... ...That said, there are many lurkers who may benefit from seeing their liberal ideas debated and debunked. Having a few polite Lib'rals to play off against can enliven the debate, and help us to hone our skills.
FReegards...MUD
Reasonably put, slim. I try not to talk too much about the issues that divide us because they are really not that important, to me. I've been a liberal all my life, but my respect and love for this country is greater than any other issue. So, I have found many more 'friends' here regarding national defense than elsewhere on the net. I have long regarded FR as one of the best damn local taverns in the neighborhood and sometimes we get a bit wild and wooly...and sometimes there are some guests we just never take a liking to.
That said, it will come as no shock that I think nopardons never fails to exhibit the very worst traits of conservative zealots, and a mean spirited unpleasant human excuse for a carbon life form to boot. That doesn't mean I get to shut 'er up, but I can and do tune 'er out. I hope that 'rogerv', if he is real, takes a look around in spite of one of FR's more opinionated blowhards.
Now, with that said, may I let you know that the most important political lesson I have ever learned since before Harry Truman was learned here, on FR, after many days of spirited discussion.
The subject was hate crimes and I had the liberal reflex belief that hate could be classified as a terrible thing that must not be permitted. After many patient and convincing arguments from the serious conservatives and libertarians it finally dawned on me that criminalizing what a person thinks is just plain wrong.
Not many of my liberal friends will admit in public that they are wrong on this issue, but in the long run the conservative view on this subject will prevail in the courts, the ACLU to the contrary...and I've belonged to that group far too long to abandon it now.
So, FR can be a place where we can hear a different point of view, and as long as we don't deliberately seek to start a ruckus (anymore than a mature adult does in a strange bar) we can eventually make some sense of the other point of view...and when we buy a round we can choose to let the spoil sports taste the gloat.
Sorry, I disagree. FR is for whomever the owner & moderators decide to let stay. A board like this is like someone's living room. When you're a guest in someone's living room, you follow the rules of the house.
This is a conservative forum. However, there is a significant difference between trolls who drop a t*rd in the punchbowl and run, and those who are interested in serious discussion about conservative ideas, even if they don't agree with them.
How would anyone ever become conservative if no one conservative would ever talk to them?