FR used to be a site where ALL conservatives of various types could meet and talk.
Now, if you’re not a Creationist, Mitt-Hating, Rudy-Hating, Bible-Thumping, Science-Hating, JimRob worshipping, TV-hating turd, you’re not welcome.
I was not kicked off FreeRepublic, even though I said I would vote for rudy.
>>>”Now, if you’re not a Creationist, Mitt-Hating, Rudy-Hating, Bible-Thumping, Science-Hating, JimRob worshipping, TV-hating turd, you’re not welcome.”
I dunno...
Im not a Christian or a creationist. I dont own a bible to “thump” and I happen to love science. To me, Jim is some guy who operates a web site that I choose to frequent and I love my TV! I just dont love everything thats on every channel that cable has to offer.
I use profanity, although I try to mask it and self censor to a degree but sometimes I screw up and I have been threatened with banning if I didn’t stop. I stopped... And im still here, at least until I call someone a @#$! @(@#@!! again..
You are lying. I am proof.
I prefer to think of it as adoration of Jim Rob, not worship. The rest are spot-on...
Hmmm ... I am not a creationist - to the contrary, I actively debate against the Young Earth types.
I'm also not a Bible-thumper. I'm not a Science hater. I'm not a TV hater.
I don't hate Mitt or Rudy, I just think the former has no core principles and the latter has way too many liberal core principles.
And yet I'm still here...
Rockin,
You have been around here long enough to remember where active posters have tried to use FR to promote items that got the Owner upset. We had Arator decide the everyone had better get behind Buchannan, we had people decide that Bush didn’t have to win primaries, we had people decide that FR was going to get behind a first declared candidate, a popular Mayor that was a good leader on 9/11 and not even wait for conservatives to declare — dozens of examples.
Alll JR is doing by posting his threads is saying he isn’t going to let his site be a Rah-Rah site for the less than solid conservative candidates.
As far as standing up to group-think and posters acting like you were an idiot if you didn’t think (1)Flight 700 was taken out by a Clinton orderd missle, (2)Ron Brown was shot on the plane and the plane brought down on purpose, (3) everyone that doesn’t homeschool hates America, (4)Wesley Clarke burned Waco personally or any of the other more iconoclastic positions — well hell, that sort of stuff has been going on for the whole life of the site and you just have to firmly make a sensible case and most of that fades back into proper proportion (Unknown, true with reservations or false with reservations) within a few months.
If you feel you can’t post your flavor of conservative thought here, please post it somewhere. Conservatism is the salvation of our nation.
I don't believe that for a second. If however you defend a rino candidate or an elected rino official..using vulgarities, rudeness, and personal attacks, then all gloves are off. Being respectful is the key to sound debate. I've seen excellent debates on FR that didn't resort to bannings etc., because the posters didn't attack each other.
“Now, if you’re not a Creationist, Mitt-Hating, Rudy-Hating, Bible-Thumping, Science-Hating, JimRob worshipping, TV-hating turd, you’re not welcome.”
Uh, no. That's not right. And this post insults a great many FReepers. Was it meant to upset people? If so then it becomes about you and your online behavior rather than about Mitt and his record.
If you view negative responses to this particular post as somehow not accepting of alternate conservative views then you are muddying the waters and simply being rude and divisive.
This is something that needs to be pointed out - if you attack with anything other than verifiable facts and figures about conservative issues then you have changed the topic and entered into an area where extreme behavior ends in zotting. You don't seem to be even close to me - far from it - but you need to see your own post for what it is and what it isn't: it isn't an alternate conservative view. It is a personal attack of fellow FReepers.