[Dog Gone]

I'm sad to see this, hchutch. What you say about the tone at Free Republic is quite true. It's been a long-standing problem on any immigration thread, but the Terri threads were simply insufferable. They made the Buchanan wars here in 2000 look like a friendly hug.

You brought a valuable and reasonable approach to the important topics of the day and you will be sorely missed by me. I urge you to reconsider because I have the hope, if not the expectation, that Free Republic will return as place where people can disagree without being disagreeable.

If it can't, or if it becomes a forum completely dominated by the issues of the religious right and the xenophobes, then your decision seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I expect a lot more of the long time well-respected posters to follow your lead.

[maica]

If it can't, or if it becomes a forum completely dominated ...by the issues of the religious right and the xenophobes, then your decision seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I expect a lot more of the long time well-respected posters to follow your lead.


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Sadly, very true. I always value ideas posted by both of you, but am very uncomfortable on so many threads recently that I worry for the 'reputation' of FR as it gains an ever higher visibility in the world of conservative activism.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

If it can't, or if it becomes a forum completely dominated by the issues of the religious right and the xenophobes, then your decision seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I expect a lot more of the long time well-respected posters to follow your lead.

Exactly right! I mean, this forum could never survive without Lucianne Goldberg and her crew. Or what about CaL and the Keyes bunch? And let's not forget the Buchanan brigades! Oh yes, the loss of "long time well-respected posters" will quickly be the death-knell of Free Republic.

Or not.

Ecclesiastes 1.2: "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."