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rb ver. 2.0 ^ | 01/11/08 | rb ver. 2.0

Posted on 01/11/2008 9:50:13 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0

Sign in here. RINO's need not apply.


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To: Dead Corpse

You’re absolutely right.

The term “conservative” is entirely subjective, as most people here understand it.


61 posted on 01/11/2008 11:34:23 AM PST by Constitution Day (Get over yourselves!)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

I have mustered.


62 posted on 01/11/2008 11:34:42 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: pgkdan

In ‘04 it was a lot more conservative than it is today.


63 posted on 01/11/2008 11:35:19 AM PST by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Okay, I’ll come clean. I only pretend to be conservative so I can join in on the guilty/not guilty votes of all the naughty teachers.


64 posted on 01/11/2008 11:35:46 AM PST by nhoward14 (Fred Thompson will get it DUN DUN in 2008!)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

By conservative, you mean small government advocate?

That would be me.


65 posted on 01/11/2008 11:37:10 AM PST by ovrtaxt (In my fantasy world, the Dems run a Zell Miller/ Lieberman ticket...)
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To: pgkdan; Kevmo

As I said to Kevmo yesterday, I miss 1998 when people around here had balls.


66 posted on 01/11/2008 11:38:40 AM PST by ovrtaxt (In my fantasy world, the Dems run a Zell Miller/ Lieberman ticket...)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

HERE! (will this be evolving into a Ping list?)

B4DH STILL!


67 posted on 01/11/2008 11:51:16 AM PST by wolfcreek (The Status Quo Sucks!)
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To: Constitution Day; Rb ver. 2.0
I submit that the pejorative acronym "RINO" has been used so very much here on FR that any effect it may have had has been blunted.

I agree. If we imagine that "Republican" is the same thing as "conservative" - even assuming we agreed on a definition of "conservative - then we're always going to be disappointed.

There are many elected officials, such as our own Senators, who are loyal Republicans voting the party/administration line. However, we all seem to agree that they're not conservative. Anoreth observes that a conservative is "a person who agrees with me on every issue."

68 posted on 01/11/2008 12:00:19 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Go ahead and water the lawn - my give-a-damn's busted.")
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To: Constitution Day

It’s the RINOs who try to obfuscate. JimRob has a perfectly good definition of conservative.

From the front page of Free Republic:

Statement by the founder of Free Republic
As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc. .... We are not connected to or funded by any political party, news agency, or any other entity. .... We aggressively defend our God-given and first amendment guaranteed rights to free speech, free press, free religion, and freedom of association, as well as our constitutional right to control the use and content of our own personal private property. Despite the wailing of the liberal trolls and other doom & gloom naysayers, we feel no compelling need to allow them a platform to promote their repugnant and obnoxious propaganda from our forum. Free Republic is not a liberal debating society. We are conservative activists dedicated to defending our rights, defending our constitution, defending our republic and defending our traditional American way of life.

This is NOT a GOP website, it says so right there, we have no affiliation with any party... That often catches republicans by surprise.


69 posted on 01/11/2008 12:01:07 PM PST by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter won't "let some arrogant corporate media executive decide whether this campaign's over)
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To: Kevmo

Kiss-up. JR is not the sole arbiter of conservatism.


70 posted on 01/11/2008 12:06:32 PM PST by Constitution Day (Get over yourselves!)
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To: Tax-chick
me.. i'm not conservative, i'm ultra-conservative. :)
71 posted on 01/11/2008 12:11:59 PM PST by absolootezer0 (white male christian hetero married gun toting SUV driving motorcycle riding conservative smoker)
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To: Tax-chick
Anoreth observes that a conservative is "a person who agrees with me on every issue."

LOL!

Doubtless there are many here who would define it exactly the same way. :)

72 posted on 01/11/2008 12:13:31 PM PST by Constitution Day (Get over yourselves!)
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To: Constitution Day

He is on this website because it’s his private property. Do you have a problem with the definition?


73 posted on 01/11/2008 12:14:14 PM PST by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter won't "let some arrogant corporate media executive decide whether this campaign's over)
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To: Constitution Day
JR is not the sole arbiter of conservatism.

No, but he is certainly one that many of us agree with. Do you agree with his list?

74 posted on 01/11/2008 12:20:50 PM PST by polymuser (Don't vote for Kennedy Wing of the GOP)
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To: Kevmo
Heh. Mighty testy, aren't we?

You are bring up RINOs and obfuscation...which may be a valid point.

Then you copy-and-paste Jim's definition of a "conservative" (which looks pretty solid to me personally).

Finally, you remind me "we have no affiliation with any party" (a fact of which I'm well aware).

My point is:

Why bandy the term RINO about when this forum doesn't claim to be a Republican one? Wouldn't "CINO" be more appropriate?

And if FR has no affiliation with any party, why presume to claim what a Republican is and is not (RINO)?

All valid questions, I think...don't you?

75 posted on 01/11/2008 12:22:38 PM PST by Constitution Day (Get over yourselves!)
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To: polymuser

see my #74


76 posted on 01/11/2008 12:27:53 PM PST by Constitution Day (Get over yourselves!)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

REPORTING FOR DUTY, SIR!

77 posted on 01/11/2008 12:45:09 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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To: ovrtaxt
By conservative, you mean small government advocate?

It's a sad statement that such a statement can no longer be assumed when talking about "conservativism".

78 posted on 01/11/2008 1:02:11 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Constitution Day
Doubtless there are many here who would define it exactly the same way. :)

It has a certain consistency which makes it an easy position to defend!

If more teenagers had Anoreth's reading list, there would be a many more "conservatives," by most accepted definitions.

79 posted on 01/11/2008 1:09:46 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Go ahead and water the lawn - my give-a-damn's busted.")
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To: AuntB
Ditto.

No one who supports McCain/Huckabee/Rudy is a conservative or semi-conservative.

80 posted on 01/11/2008 1:14:30 PM PST by Dante3
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