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“We will continue moderating FR that way we have been for all these years. Anyone who doesn’t like it or doesn’t trust us is free to post elsewhere. Thanks.”

Jim, I respectfully think you should reconsider what I think Kevmo is trying to say. Posters here on FR that agree with your stance on Romney, should not be subject to repeated calumnies like, “Your third party vote is a vote for Obama.” Or, you are an “OBOT” because you won’t vote for Romney. That is, you know, a lie. Generally, they wouldn’t say that to you directly...why should they get away with saying to other posters here on FR that mirror your stance exactly?

Once again, I respectfully submit that maybe certain actions, like those mentioned above, should get a poster a “time out” where they cannot post without going through a moderator? If they persist, then a zot might be called for, after your review. Conversely, maybe persons like myself, than won’t support Romney because of his past, should have limits put on us as to what is acceptable rhetoric. I have gone over the top at times...I shouldn’t be calling an ABO poster a “traitor” or “surrender monkey.” That should get me a time out. Do you see what I am advocating, is that on both sides (pro Romney and anti Romney) there needs to be certain things that are not allowed to be written here without reprimand.

Tempers are a bit out of control and need to be tempered a bit. To inclue my own.

At least consider posting some new guidelines on proper discourse. BTW - IF you don’t, I’m not going to leave in a huff. I doubt Kevmo will either.

Right along the lines of my earlier proposal.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905011/replies?c=403

To: wolfcreek
Nothing has changed about my principles, ethics, or my relationship with God but you sure couldn’t tell it from the way I’ve been treated here lately. Why?
***My guess is that JimRob doesn’t want to open another heart-wrenching bugzapper thread. So he allows the RINO squishes to bash conservatives.
If it were me, I’d post a boundary establishing thread that draws the line for both sides. If you have decided for yourself to vote for Romney, that’s your own choice that we disagree with. If you’ve decided to write in a conservative, that is also your own choice. Each Freeper makes their choice and the choice is respected
But if you try to separate conservatives from their conservative beliefs on this conservative website to get them to vote for a librul like Romney, you’re a librul and you’ve crossed the line. Similarly, if you call the Romney voters something like ‘squishes’ or ‘cowards’ or CINOs or ‘libruls’ then you have also crossed the line. Anyone who crosses the line gets one warning, then a timeout.
Seems like a simple way to keep the peace during such a troublesome time that the choice is 2 babykilling libtards.

368 posted on 07/11/2012 8:30:11 AM PDT by Kevmo ( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It’s A Socon Site.)
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To: Kevmo
If it were me, I’d post a boundary establishing thread that draws the line for both sides. If you have decided for yourself to vote for Romney, that’s your own choice that we disagree with. If you’ve decided to write in a conservative, that is also your own choice. Each Freeper makes their choice and the choice is respected.
I called directly to the top for this several months ago, as soon as it became clear that Romney was pulling away with the nomination.
I was told pointedly that there would be absolutely no room on FR for those who thought supporting the GOP nominee was best for America.
Then there was the so-called “truce” that was utterly ill-formed and incoherent and failed to address any of the real issues at hand.
Now here we are, doing what we’re doing.
Oh, well. At least we’re making the DUmmies, the commies, Team Obama, the rent-seekers, the moochers, and the jihadis happy.

403 posted on 07/11/2012 11:08:13 AM PDT by rogue yam

To: rogue yam; Jim Robinson
Well, this is interesting. We’ve got a RINO squish agreeing with a hold-your-ground Conservative agreeing with eachother on how this situation should be handled on Free Republic.

540 posted on 07/11/2012 5:03:37 PM PDT by Kevmo ( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It’s A Socon Site.)
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Posters here on FR that agree with your stance on Romney, should not be subject to repeated calumnies like, “Your third party vote is a vote for Obama.” Or, you are an “OBOT” because you won’t vote for Romney. That is, you know, a lie. Generally, they wouldn’t say that to you directly...why should they get away with saying to other posters here on FR that mirror your stance exactly?

You know my stance, Jim: it's your house, always and forever... and you're (rightly and unalterably) its sole arbiter and master.

Your Place; Your Rules. I'll abide, regardless of whatever you ultimately decide.

That being freely and happily conceded, however: what Kevmo and Sola are saying, directly above, is, I think, both perfectly consistent with FR principles AND rigorously fair.

Hope that didn't seem "out of turn"; slipping back into regular Snarky Observer Mode, now. ;)

Not everyone is at the same place in their conservatism, and at their recognition of the GOP-e’s war against conservatism.

Not every freeper is at the same place in their recognition of, and fellowship with, and awareness of, the strength, commitment, and possibilities of this new anti-GOP-e/tea party rebellion.

Some freepers are ordinary republicans that only know Romney of the last five years, and they see him as the usual republican moderate that republicans are always forced to endure, and submit to, those freepers probably don’t understand the depths of our knowledge of Mitt Romney’s life long politics, and the hidden passion of his anti-conservatism, and they are puzzled about this determination not to get behind their party’s nominee, so we naturally hear the common and natural, election year cries of “most important election in history”, “if you don’t vote for Romney, you support Obama”, “Your third party vote is a vote for Obama”, etc.

Some of that has to be expected and endured, and ignored, if it becomes over done, over used, personal, and is creating logjams and hijackings, and too much bloodshed on threads, then a little slap down and a reminder of what freerepublic is, seems called for occasionally.

The last 3 months of an election year when freerepublic is against the GOP nominee, is going to be interesting and challenging.

I don’t know how JR can handle all the stuff he does, and has, for so many years.