Posted on 12/28/2004 11:05:31 AM PST by jveritas
If you want to destroy a political forum then turn it into a conspiracy theories haven. This is exactly what is Democratic Underground known to us as Dummyland. At DU the lefties are running all type of insanely delusional conspiracy theories ranging from election fraud, to Bush is going to kill or imprison every Democrat in the country.
On the other hand Free Republic is the best political forum on the internet because the vast majority of posters use logic and facts to express their opinions and comments regarding a particular subject. Unfortunately in the last two months there have been a flood of threads on Free Republic where the conspiracy theory crowd have been living it a large. These threads deal with the illegal immigration issue and many of the posters on these threads used every conspiracy theory under the sun. These insanely delusional conspiracy theories tell us how President Bush is going to Mexicanize America, how he is going to destroy the American economy, how he is going to annihilate our culture and on and on and on. President Bush has been savagely attacked by these posters and he was called all type of names. These threads are being now the Bush bashing forum on Free Republic.
Leading the brutal attack against President Bush are the Buchanin loyalists and 3rd party voters. Yes you can go ahead and show a poll on FR where the majority disagrees with President Bush guest worker program but the vast majority of those are not hatefully attacking President Bush. The hate campaign is lead by a fringe group on FR and this fringe must no tarnish the reputation of this great forum.
We can disagree with President Bush on his illegal immigration plan but we should do so in a constructive and logical way. We must not allow these threads of immigration issue to be hijacked by the fringe that will turn into a “Bash Bush Party”, spread insanely delusional conspiracy theories on Bush plan to destroy America, and spew a lot of racism directed toward Latinos. In the same way the fringe is going after any freeper who disagrees with their Bush bashing and crazy conspiracy theories and accuse him or her of being a supporter to illegal immigration, wanting to destroy the nation, helping the terrorists, and on and on and on.
We should always remember that the Republican Party is the ruling majority because we were able to get ride of the fringe in our party, the Buchanin loyalists and extremists who turned into 3rd party voters.
Free Republic is the greatest of all political forum on the internet, let us keep it this way and let us prevent it from being hijacked by a fringe of Bush basher and insanely delusional conspiracy theorists.
I take it that you don't live in a border state? People are using logic and reason, but also personal experience when discussing this crisis. It is a crisis, and it is a crisis of frightening proportions. People have a right to voice their disgust towards Bush's proposals.
I voted for Bush knowing full well what his assinine intentions regarding illegal immigration is. I resent you bashing Buchanan and his supporters. I voted for Buchanan several years ago, primarily because of his views on illegal immigration and border security. So what?
It's because of people like you that the problem has gotten so bad. Yes, I said people like you. Why? Because all people like you have to do is say, "Oh, the only reason people are upset about illegal immigration is because Juan and Maria are moving next door!" Such playing of the race card effectively shuts many people up. Nobody wants to be "racist." So Americans are cowed into silence while millions and millions of illegals flood into their home. If a million white foreigners per year were sneaking into this country, undercutting Americans for jobs, using welfare programs, flooding the schools with their illegal kids and jackpot babies, causing the emergency rooms to shut down, committing crimes, etc., it would be a no-brainer. There'd be no race issue clouding things up and making people emotional. Everyone would see the logic in arresting and deporting the invaders. Things never would have been allowed to get anywhere near this bad.
Do you honestly think that if the invaders were white, everyone would be saying, "Oh, goody goody gumdrops! We don't mind, because the invaders are white! Now, if Juan and Maria were invading...well! That would be different!"?
Go to Post #199 on this thread, please. Read it carefully. Do you honestly think it matters what race the people who are doing all these things is? Do you truly believe we're upset only because they're Hispanic? Do you think so little of your fellow Freepers? Your fellow Americans?
Please take your race card elsewhere. It ain't gonna cut it with this Freeper.
Now that was just wrong..I may be considered a Bush bot by some of these who vote third party and I may consider them lost somewhere in the 18th century but I will say many are conservatives. Many are one issue voters and that I have never been. Many do not consider what is possible to correct and what is impossible to change.(We cannot eliminate all taxes for instance and we do need a standing army)
This forum was strongly in support of Bush in this election year..but it is not designated a Republican forum.. It just happens most of us are Republicans. Most conservatives are Republicans..and yes we do have the power...May we use it wisely.
The illegal immigration threads I mostly avoid..We have a problem and the ways to solve it are limited by what is possible. We need to concentrate more on what is possible.
You see I know exactly what you people like were going to say and that why I wrote it in the original thread. And you still repeat the same stupid argument.
You've written the best replies on this thread.
LOL... Good one.
"you people"?
Would you rather they showed up BEFORE the election?
Listen USADAVE. Bush is our President and if you give the choice on this website whether people want to be BushBot or BuchaninBot, you will lose very badly. I think it is going in the head of the Buchananites and 3rd party voters that they are a majority on this website, this joke will end badly for many of you.
If I could not form my own opinions, I would have become c Democrat.
15 years supporting the GOP, and some anon poster on the internet tells me I don't belong in the party?
Always ping a poster when discussing them..It is the polite FR thing to do.
Without the Republican party conservatism is dead.
Please yank my previous post, I hit reply rather than private reply.
Thanks...
That was a no no. These kinds of warnings are meant to be private for obvious reasons.
You are the fool.
I rest my case.
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