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.
Is there a specific hijacking episode that you refer to, or a general inkling of hijackings that have or will occur?
Because the coroner had Foster's brain in a jar on his desk to prevent anyone from pointing out the fact that he didn't die where they found him?
Better hang on to it.
I've hijacked tons of threads over the years. However, I've never done it as a Fringe Basher - even if I dislike Fringe...
It read "Foster's, Austrailian for Beer" on the label.
Now you've got me thinking...
Don't go too far in the comparison. I see quite a few differences:
1. FR was never that vile or vulgar.
2. Clinton actually was guilty of doing some of the stuff. Rape, almost certain. Coke, probable. Whitewater, most definitely. Murder, unlikely.
WADR, you need a bigger hat.
You may have missed the last poll on FR regarding the 2004 Presidential election. Almost 15% voted against President Bush to support a 3rd party.
Simply look at the immigration threads and you know exactly how the fringe hijacked these threads.
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But I leave it in the capable hands of the Admin Moderators, John and Jim Robinson to decide the direction and content of this site.
But I respect your opinion and concern.
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Please, just shaaaaaaadup..
"Ninety-nine point nine percent of the time, the human condition being what it is, "conspiracy," on any large scale and to any wide effect, should simply be discounted"
And then there's that 1% of the time when a former Clinton crony assumes room temperature....
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