Yeah, I guess that's the one benefit of stifling dissent.
stifling dissent? Oh come on.. I feel bad a few good folks are no longer here but that was their choice to carry on and spar as they did..
I still scratch my head over why some started so darn early and so darn hard, only to blow a lot of good folks out of the water along with them as the battle intensified.
btw, I’d love to have seen it happen on the California threads long ago where sane folks endured haranguing continually for backing conservative candidates during and since the Recall until the recent departures of a few Progre$$ive shills who sold out hard for aRnie and the Kennedys and their socialist hugging agenda. We see the price for going down that path all too clearly.
It's unfortunate, but some dissent needs to be stifled if a forum is to work to achieve its stated goals. The new forum, for instance, has a strict policy against promoting third-party candidates and has banned people for doing such. I say all the power to them, as allowing such would dilute the activism they are trying to accomplish. Likewise, FR management decided that supporting Giuliani was not the direction they wanted FR to go in, and acted accordingly.
I like a good flame war as much as anyone, but it was really getting to the point of ridiculousness. I read way too many nasty comments between people on both sides who I considered "FR friends" and could not jump in without offending both parties.
Some of the people that have moved on were folks I grew quite a liking fr, despite disagreeing on some things, and yes, it sucks that I'm not going to be able to communicate with them any more. But I really do think this was for the better. As I mentioned, FR is much more pleasant, and the new forum seems to be having some degree of success, and as far as I can tell, with a few exceptions, people are getting along over there.
"566 posted on 05/21/2007 9:11:41 AM PDT by Texas Federalist"
This is the "stifling of dissent" that will occur with any of the current declared leading candidates with maybe one exception!!!
It's good to see you back defending your point of view. At least you were never abjectly obnoxious!!! Not even close!!!