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Clearly your snitching...
***Interesting choice of words. “snitching”? JimRob STARTED this thread. I have a legitimate question — is it within protocol to ping people you know would consider it as bad news. If so, where is the protocol? If not, why not? If anything I would be getting Spiff in more trouble than you, even though I agree with Spiff. Geez, you really need to ligthten up.

This somehow shows that I “have no tolerance for either an honest opinion or a simple request that protocol be followed”? How is that? It’s a straightforward question. Where is that protocol posted? I’ve been here for a while and I only check the protocol/lexicon stuff rarely, so if it’s been updated it would be helpful to have that pointed out so everyone can follow the right protocol.

he has decided that we are sub-human
***Time for some decaf, You Dirty Rat.

Spiff and friends clearly smell blood in the water and would like JimRob to have a mass purge of all Rudy supporters.
***Clearly? Well, yes I do smell blood in the water. But that is the blood of rudy’s campaign falling apart as we predicted. But a “mass purge”? Prove it.

To construe my firm demand not to abuse the ping lists as a request for removal from Free Republic is pretty lame.
***Well, it looks like you got back to decaf on this comment. The way I see it with the rudybots is that they simply jumped the shark when they decided not to answer posts of substance about their candidate and generated crickets on so many threads that folks like Spiff got frustrated with that game. So I’m interested in knowing if JimRob considers it an abuse of the ping list, which is what you just wrote.

Some posters, however, are clearly afraid of these posts and desperately want all Rudy supporters banned. That’s hilarious.
***If it’s true that some posters “desperately want all Rudy supporters banned” then I agree with you and it IS hilarious. But your statement is so full of exaggeration that it’s nonsense. I would be willing to bet that Spiff doesn’t want “all” rudybots banned, but that they would be politely required to defend their candidate on the issues.

If you cannot deal with political discourse within the relatively narrow confines of FR how do you expect to do so out there in the general population?
***This is a non sequitur. Political discourse is done by those who choose to engage in it, whether here on FR or in the general population. If rudybots cannot deal with someone pinging them on a subject in a political forum, what does that say about them and their candidate? I personally think the rudybots are simply rude, pushing a socially liberal candidate onto this socially conservative forum using false dilemma tactics and obfuscations. But that doesn’t mean I think “ALL RUDYBOTS SHOULD BE BANNED”.