Not one response...ever!
Over the years I've been able to maintain a cordial correspondence-via the Internet-with writers of divergent viewpoints, everyone from noted Israeli conservative pundit and scholar Steven Plaut, to the author of the "Chatterbox" column in Slate, to even that egotistical, H.L. Mencken wannabe who pens a regular column for the Newark Star-Ledger.
However, for some undisclosed reason he doesn't see fit to communicate with another member of the same website.
Go figure.
Sorry, dndmsb, I just saw the thread. Glad to chat with you now, here or privately. I maintain cordial correspondence with several conservatives; one of them, in fact, put this thread up.
Perhaps we can start the discussion with this. Many people were offended with my suggestion that FR bans dissidents. My last time participating in a Free Republic thread I wrote a FReepmail to a poster congratulating him for his independent-mindedness in suggesting that Rove might be guilty. He wrote me back reticently, and then said this: "I am usually a little reticent on FReepmail, ever since I learned that it could be monitored by TPTB."
FReepers are nervous about getting their mail judged by the owners of the site, it seems.
Where does this paranoia come from? Is it entirely unfounded?