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You have quite a few broad stroke criticisms of some of the people on this thread. Care to pinpoint who you're talking about and offer some evidence/examples?

I know many of these people and some of them have done more over the last ten years to advance conservatism than you could possibly imagine. Most do more in a week than I would guess you do in a year.

You seem to me to be one of those people who feel if someone else doesn't believe exactly as you do on issues that doesn't make them true "conservative". No one individual is the repository of all things conservative and people gravitate toward the issues important to them. Economic conservatives may not be as concerned for social issues and vice versa. Nothing wrong with that, it's just the way things are.

You're "one size fits all conservatism" is debilitating to the overall cause.

Hi Bob. I must admit that I've been less than civil over the last few days, but considering the overall tone of these threads, I hope you understand. Although you might have gotten the impression that I'm a "one size fits all conservative", that is really not the case at all. I'm actually a small-l libertarian and am liberal myself on certain issue such as capital punishment and gays. But anyhow, the Rudy conversation was off-topic and I shouldn't have brought it up.

You have quite a few broad stroke criticisms of some of the people on this thread. Care to pinpoint who you're talking about and offer some evidence/examples?

I think my post above pretty much sums it up. I'll repost it here...

I don't have a problem with people who genuinely support the Minutemen raising questions. It is healthy. If there is any nonsense going on, I will be the first to call for Simcox to be prosecuted. What I do have a big problem with are the freepers who have opposed the Minutemen from the very beginning acting as if they are part of the border security movement and feigning worry about how this might negativly affect the Minutemen when, in reality, they would love to see the organization crumble.

If you don't find this characterization to be accurate, I'd be happy to do some Googling and show you examples of this crowd trashing the Minutemen and the border-security movement in general long before these latest allegations surfaced. What you are seeing on these threads is a witch hunt. Period. FR is better than this.