For a site called Free Republic, they sure do censor a lot.
Meh, to be fair?
I think there’s a difference between not being allowed to voice an opinion vs simply rolling your eyes over spam responses from people who just want happy talk and insist you drink the kool-aid.
No, I never got zotted — simply lost laptop, email access (hotmail is no more!), etc to an old, old account hence this newer one.
2008 was bad. To be fair, many of them deserved it - but I vaguely recall just announcing you supported Rudy BITD, in that primary, put you on a Zot watchlist. It actually amuses me that he since became... well... you know.
The important thing to me has always been conservative principles — but that covers a LOT of territory. Anybody who just blindly follows “X”? Pointless to argue. I’ve never been impractical myself - it’s inevitable in a republic/democracy - sometimes, you have to make compromises.