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There are two never-ending, non-issue battles at FR that have been going on since the beginning, and will forever: the "true believers vs pragmatists" and "Firebrands vs Influencers". This thread is an example of the latter.

FR is an activist site. Therefore, it should be no surprise that about 60% here live for the fight. They consider themselves warriors for conservative causes, and they NEVER stop fighting liberals. Even if there was an issue they agreed with liberals on (immigration), they would find a way to ATTACK because that's what they do. And let me say here and now that they are a vital part of the conservative movement.

I do NOT live for the fight, however. Oh, before Schaivo, I was one of you, it was a game to me: attack, attack, defend, defend. It was spy vs spy, back and forth, battle for its own sake. But after Schaivo, I was wounded to the core. I waked away from that episode feeling dirty and mean, having used tactics that I would have found abhorrent in others. Never again.

I decided from that moment on, that I am a conservative, not an operative. FR has enough Patrick Henry's, I'll be a Jefferson. There is an old Indian saying: it doesn't do any good to cut off a man's nose and then give him a rose to smell. I have actually CONVERTED 3 different liberals to our cause, using honey instead of vinegar.

So call me PC. Call me a RINO because I persuade instead of attack. That's fine.

How many have you conservative warriors converted? Is your adversary very receptive after you bloody his nose?

I'm with sinkspur, for once.

[ I have actually CONVERTED 3 different liberals to our cause, using honey instead of vinegar. ]

To what RINOs?.. You can remove the democrat from the party but its hard to remove the democrat from the democrat.. Liberalism is a mental disease you see.. based in envy..

Socialism is Slavery by Givernment... pure and simple..
If they had any sense they wouldn't even BE democrats..
An ex-democrat is usually a RINO.. same thing really..
You know, a BIG Givernment republican...

So call me PC. Call me a RINO because I persuade instead of attack. That's fine.

Nah, I'll just call you both supercilious because you preen about how you're better than those you disagree with.

Adj. 1. supercilious - having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; haughty, prideful, sniffy, swaggering, lordly, disdainful

Politics ain't beanbag guys. AC's rhetoric pulls no punches; that you fellows do, displays an unseemly attempt to put your brothers (and sisters) in arms down by trumpeting how goo-goo you are. As Homer Simpson said: "BOR--ING."