Thank you for your response. With the reaction to people's posts here it makes it difficult to ask. Attitudes toward posters by those folks that love to spend their time researching could benefit FreeRepublic if they thought of themselves as teachers. Too often they attack others for saying something they think is stupid or something that may not necessarily meet what they believe is conservative. I am a Republican. I don't like the RINO name-calling nor do I like the DU references and all this Zot stuff. As a Republican and even if WE do not agree on all points my vote is ALSO NEEDED. I come here to read, to digest that information the best I can (which sometimes is via debate/posting) and form my opinion. Conservative means different things to different people and I don't think that is respected here. We can have honest disagreements and still be conservative. In my opinion, the name calling and belittling of posters only brings down FreeRepublic. If you want to be an influence why not try educating or ignoring a poster if you can't respond in a decent manner. Otherwise maybe there should be a backroom for those experts so they don't have to deal with us uneducated idiots. Your influence just might convince others to switch their thinking.
I agree completely, TM. I don't regard disagreement or differences of opinion as a bad thing.