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From an essay by John Reynolds:

After Appomatox, everyone remembered that they had always supported Lincoln, just as (I am told) every Steelers fan now recalls prophesying the triumph of their team in the middle of the season when the playoffs looked hopeless. Such fans, such supporters, are welcome to the party. It is human nature to lose hope in tough times and then to forget that loss when those times change. Nobody would judge such folk harshly, but better still to have been more a simple human, to have been a civilized man. It is the nature of a civilized man to remain undeterred by obstacles in pursuit of his great goals.

There are forty percent, we are told, of such men and women in this war. Aren’t you glad that we can always tell our children that we were in that forty percent and know it is the truth? When we look up at Rushmore and see George W. Bush there, wouldn’t you be glad that before victory was obvious to even a Democrat you saw it coming? These are good days to support the President!

I am proud to be one of that 40 per cent. I have no respect for your opinions, and the reasons I gave in my earlier posts.

Conservatism has many variations. Yours is the "glass is empty, things are crap" wing of conservatism, and you are carrying water for the Rats.

I have nothing further to say to you, and further posts you make will be taken in the spirit which you obviously intend.

You have shown you really don't care about conservatism. Your brand of conservatism is defending Republicans. My brand of conservatism is conservatism.

This is a conservative forum. I have posted 4,320 conservative posts at last tally. You post pro-Republican posts, even though there are many Republicans who are not conservative. You are a defender of Republicans, regardless of how liberal they are.

This forum was founded for conservatives for conservative activism. I have done my part in a fair and honest fashion to promote the conservative cause. All you do is defend Republicans, regardless of the direction they are taking us. You do not help the conservative cause by defending nonconservative agenda.

Jim Robinson, the founder of Free Republic, had this to say on the FR home page:

"In our continuing fight for freedom, for America and our constitution and against totalitarianism, socialism, tyranny, terrorism, etc., Free Republic stands firmly on the side of right, i.e., the conservative side."

Socialism has expanded in America since the founding of Free Republic. That is not even debatable. The OMB data is factual, not opinion. However, fighting socialism is still one of the goals of Free Republic and is something I have mentioned often in my 4,320 posts. I continue to fight it--you continue to defend socialist agendas.

Mr. Robinson also has this to say on the home page:

"Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse . . ."

My career has been in economics and financial services and all things financial, so my focus has always been on limited government, or in Jim Robinsons words, "we're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse."

4,320 posts and counting, and nearly all of them (except for some good old fashion RAT bashing and some attempts at humor) have been focused on government largesse and have been strictly pro-conservative.

I hate the RATs, you the RATs, we all hate the RATs, but my focus is on conservatism, which the founder of this forum made as his mission statement. You, Jim and I would have hoped that a Republican Congress and George Bush would have been 100% fiscally conservative but that has not been the case. I have yet to see Mr. Robinson change his focus and mission statement--it is STILL conservatism, thank God.

It is also interesting to note that national conservative commentators, who supported President Bush, have not changed their focus from conservatism to a new focus of "DEFENDER OF REPUBLICANS". You, however, have changed your focus from a fighter for conservatism to a defender of Republicans.

Your focus is on defense of party name. My focus is on the purpose of this forum--conservatism.