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.
Bayourod my less evil twin I am so glad I found you. I cannot stop from crying, thank so much genius buccaneer81 for arranging for this emotional family meeting.
Yo j...
Why dont you stand up and help out your brother Rod sometimes on the immigration threads?
Rod gets it from all sides by people like me.
Yo Rod...its me Datmon. You rest up...we got a whole new year of head-bangin comin up!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL
Get rested up...its going to be a very 'interesting' new year.
Just ignore her. This thread has degenerated a bit and unless someone knows you personally no one should imply you're an alcoholic or unstable.
"why is it that many of the conspiracy theorists and Bush bashers came from the 1998 FR class?"
The whole sense of the political landscape back then that Clinton would do ANYTHING. Women who had complaints against Clinton were being escorted out of the country; there was that list of 400 FBI files (remember that Haldeman went to jail for having ONE file); there was evidence among the republicans that the nuclear option was being deployed -- several prominent republicans started getting exposed for their sexual indiscrepancies; and there was that whole amazing Wagging The Dog warfare; and look how much garbage Linda Tripp put up with, to the point that she started recording her conversations (thank God). Those were heady times, and even Congress didn't have the courage to follow up on the obvious criminal conduct.
Much of this will end after the inauguration.
Good points.
But... I *LIKE* my tinfoil hat!
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