“If we let lefties dominate news chat forums, the terrorists win.”
I like that!
Seriously though, my hometown paper has the same kind of forum for all the locals. It brings out some of the most stupid comments you have ever heard. It’s the local idiots who probably don’t have a job and evenetually resort to name calling. I prefer much larger forums like FR. At least people know the English language and have probably graduated high school.
The good/bad thing about FR is that it is conservative-only. We are not engaging with others, convincing others, or getting part of the wider conversation on here.
If nothing else, getting some conservatives to respond to lefties would ruin their attempt to dominate the debate and expose their weak point of view.
I was on a yahoo forum that was completed Bush-bashing, and just as one poster I could hold my own ... then again, I have no idea if anyone reads it or cares.
There's some of that going on, but we do have quite a few people who post, both liberal and conservative, who are quite intelligent and astute debaters.
Come and join us, fellow Freepers! I believe I'm the only Freeper who posts there, contrary to what the rochesterturning.com folks believe. You should really give them reason to believe there's more of us! :-)