The problem with all that is that he also got rid of a lot of long time members. I disagree with you in that I considered them to be good members. I consider it to be a great loss to Freerepublic. I saw some of them get banned while politely, if forcefully arguing their points in the face of unbelievably rude and sarcastic comments from their opponents, who were not banned. I'm appalled at the glee and vindictiveness with which they were cheered on their way. I don't see that as a credit to conservatism.
And you've never seen anything like that ever happen here before, right?
That must be one great set of blinders you've been wearing over the years.
Apparently, your point is missed by many....but I agree....and no.....I don't support rudy in the least.....
“The problem with all that is that he also got rid of a lot of long time members. I disagree with you in that I considered them to be good members. I consider it to be a great loss to Freerepublic. I saw some of them get banned while politely, if forcefully arguing their points in the face of unbelievably rude and sarcastic comments from their opponents, who were not banned. I’m appalled at the glee and vindictiveness with which they were cheered on their way. I don’t see that as a credit to conservatism”
I have been reading many of their posts they have been making on their home site and it turns out they were worse than we ever knew, they are high fiving each other, bragging about what they got away with for so long, including a long time member that stated that all those years he was trying to undermine FR, and that it was his sole goal here.
Reading what they think and have thought about freerepublic for years is shocking.
The bottom line is that many of those banned are admitting that they hated JR, hated FR, and hated all of us mouth breathing Christians all along.
Many of them were a part of a fifth column group and they are even now pooling some of their other accounts to further the cause.
Many of the non-banned people here on this thread seem to be in contact with those threads and even bounce back and forth bragging about their postings here and how they stirred the pot for Rudy, and against the social conservatives.
I’m not an old timer here, but I recognize many of them, and I am reading their own words.
I don’t know why people devote so much energy to wanting to disrupt other people’s activities but it seems to be a part of the internet world.
You might want to visit some of the rudy threads to see how vicious and unreasonable the rudybots were. Type in the keyword “giuliani”. Drawing your conclusion from this thread is like sittin’ on one side of a battlefield and seeing only one group getting smoked by another.