I have opted, of late, to just stand back and watch what happens on some of these threads, I am not in the mood to verbally duel with the usual contrarians who have nothing to say, nothing to add, and seem to merely be trying to cause a Flame war, as you have noted, Ari.
That is not how "friends" argue, and those of us on FR should consider each other friends. After all. we are all supposed to be on the same team.
the arguments put forth by some of these others, especially the name calling -bigot, fascist, etc.- are not examples of how conservatives express a difference of opinion. I have only been called a bigot, or fascist by those who lean far to the left and think Kerry was a saviour, and Clinton was misunderstood!
So, I'll watch and let the left wing parrots squawk, under the guise of being "real" Americans.
You guys keep up the good work, and please keep pinging me, there are times when I might like getting into the fray again.
BTW, AAC, your opponent on your last response reminds me of another horse's patoot that was banned, a geek from MI as well, he took out fastattacksailor before he "exploded".
Texas Cowboy, hang in there my FRiend...you must be getting tons of prayers!
I'm going to chime in and make it a hat-trick. I enjoyed AAC's excellent riposte to the ill -informed poster. I, too have been avoiding FR-in part because there seems to be an ever increasing number of posters here that seem to avoid true discussion and enjoin in name-calling and other child-like behavior.
Perhaps we all know the type. For example, those who take posts out of context and try to say "GOTCHA" Those are the people that have a bunker-like mentality---or are plain out ignorant. They have little, if any, real-life experience or knowledge to base an proper argument on. They prattle on and they belch gas like some impacted bull.
As FD diplomatically pointed out, they are contrarian. I like calling them for what they are: instigators--and not of the thoughtful variety. They love to cause problems--that's all.
They are worse than trolls--they are frauds.