I have a whole inbox of people from this thread thanking me for my posts.
They don't say it openly here because of the climate that a few people have created.
Besides: the rules are we can only talk about Q on FR on this thread.
I don't think pointing out that the thread has a problem maintaining the standards of civility that typify Free Republic is pessimistic. I think it's optimistic. I remain hopeful that we can raise the level of discourse here so that it doesn't include name calling, and rude comments.
I don't post that often and generally avoid the odd food fight like a plague.
However.
After watching your performances on FR over the past months I've come a bit past the point that I merely mutter "Not this **** again" before scrolling a mite faster past the latest ode to pausing to consider if I should actually waste even more time with your perpetual word wars by hazarding a response or just punch the ABUSE in the faint hope that will get some relief.
With all due respect to the throng of fans in your inbox, Jack, you are a bore. Not to mention a world class waste of time and bandwidth.
I'm not even going to bother with crediting that opinion to anyone but me.
Just stop wasting my time, please.
Once you have left, the level of discourse can only *improve*.