Regarding Central Scrutiniser — The Saturday Night Massacre claims another victim, through suicide. I hope the mods take this as a living will and pull the plug....Kev, make sure your crew chief paints a red star under your canopy rail. :-)
***Thanks, I’m just now getting around to some old pings. I don’t know what “red star under your canopy rail” means. Oh, well. It seems pretty obvious that the guy was an antichristian bigot. This thread was the precursor to the bug zapper thread. I thought I was just one of a few who felt frustrated with the way things were going on Free Republic. It turns out that there were a ton of conservatives who were sick of the treatment.
This thread below was a turning point for me. If this forum was going to let these kinds of vanities get posted without doing something about it, it meant that FR was leaving its conservative roots. I was getting ready to start looking around for a new conservative home on the web. Now I feel like I don’t have to.
Duncan Hunter, RRRINO: Reincarnated Reagan Republican In Name Only
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1798412/posts
To: Victoria Delsoul
All this re-defining conservatism conveniently overlooks the fact that this is a socon website. I’m not interested in re-defining conservatism to fit the image of your tootyfruity solib candidate. I doubt Jim Robinson is, either. Such attempts are much better suited elsewhere, on another website. We’re pushing a socon candidate on a socon forum and running into people who like to think of themselves as conservative but they’re pushing a solib candidate on this socon forum and trying to get socons to compromise. Knowing that a solib candidate splits the socon republican base and that no republican ever won the presidency with a split base, that leaves me to conclude that this cult of personality values its own solib beliefs more than the health of the republican party. Folks like you are doing REAL damage to the republican party and I doubt your loyalty to it.
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537 posted on 03/11/2007 10:09:24 AM PDT by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
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I don’t know what “red star under your canopy rail” means. Oops! Well, you know how fighter pilots paint a small flag or other symbol just below the cockpit of their plane to symbolize an air-to-air victory? The canopy rail is the structure a canopy slides on or (in modern fighters) rests on. BTW, those little national symbols (like the RAF "bullseye," the German cross and our white star on a blue circle with "wings") are called "roundels."
You got a kill (even if he did fly into a mountain on purpose!) so, if you were fighter pilot, your crew chief would be painting a liberal roundel--a red star, of course--under your canopy rail.
My favorite "kill" pic:
Thanks for standing up for real conservatism and a united party. To continue the fighter motif, call me any time you can use a wingman. :-)