[paulat]

Do we need FReepers who will assail this nominee for not being as good as the first nominee?

We need ALL FReepers. That's why this is the United States of America...and that's why this is called FREE Republic.

There are many dictatorships I can direct you to across the globe where dissent is not allowed.

Jim Robinson's world is a shining testimony to stirring debate and a living, breating representative democracy.

[Kryptonite]

Jim Robinson's world has it limits. Attempting to discredit this nominee with comparisons to the first nominee crosses the line.

[RTINSC]

Free Republic is a forum for discussion of conservative issues and ideas. It is not a debating society.