But some posters are making it easier every day.
I couldn't agree with you more. I've been around longer than my 2002 sign-on date would indicate. I can't tell you how many times I've thought that I just posted my last comment/thread. This thread alone exhibits a wolf pack mentality that is instructive. Let one misguided comment stray from the group-think and the pack shreds "the guilty". I am saddened that people such as Peach, FairOpinion, King Prout, quidnunc - all of whom contributed so much - are gone because they did nothing other than stand up for their convictions. But we must be mindful that each of them are driven to defeat the Hillary/Obama machine(s) and to keep us from being destroyed by jihadists bent on our apocolyptic destruction. In that, we are like-minded.
But I must say something - and it may not mean much. I am President of a medium-sized company. Every employee here has common goals. But if there are two people who think exactly alike in every way...... I probably don't need one of them. The departed people from this forum do not and did not think exactly like me, or you. But they brought value to the forum. We have been diminished significantly by their departures - whether the wolf pack believes it or not.
That said, I hope to be around. I respect many, many FReepers. Others, well....maybe less so. But, the most important criteria to me when I step in the voting booth next will be protection from the jihadists. They want to kill every last one of us - the born and unborn. I pray to God that our next leader is equipped to handle the threat.
Amen. Right now, the threat is before our eyes. Anyone who looks in any other direction is simply not getting it.
It's not as simple as that. Peach, especially was driven to trash the Reagan legacy to somehow make Rudy look more conservative. Quidnunc was trolling every time he posted an anti-Fred thread.
JimRob made a decision that FR would not be used as a springboard to attack conservative candidates and/or conservative values. Rudy boosters who adhere to that are still posting.
Has the dust started settling yet?
I just saw one of your earlier posts - you may be interested in my post #6,725. All the best, my FRiend.
A fine speech. But promoting a liberal - yes, Rudy is a liberal - on a website that exists to fight liberalism is bound to cause friction.
Look at Katie-O’s opus. That utter disdain which she has for the values and supporters of this site could be seen in many of her posts. She did not come to those thoughts over the last few weeks.
So if folks chose to see those who want to take Rudy out in the primary as neanderthals and idiots, it was only a matter of time before the shit hit the fan.
Not sure how many times its been said, but this is a conservative site, not a GOP site.
Well said.
“Peach, FairOpinion, King Prout, quidnunc - all of whom contributed so much - are gone because they did nothing other than stand up for their convictions.”
BS Detector went off the chart. I sat here and watched Peach go out of her way to antagonize Jim Robinson and spite him by saying things that he warned her would find her zotted. That is not standing up for conviction. That being an arrogant despicable person. She got what she deserved. I feel safe to say that the others were routed in like fashion, knowing the integrity and focus of Jim Robinson.
With respect, that is simply not so. NO ONE has been banned for 'standing up for their convictions'. They have been banned because when they continually failed to convince others of the correctness of their convictions, they resorted to ridicule, abuse, deceit, sophistry and subterfuge in attempts to bully, intimidate and otherwise impose their 'convictions'.
They were allowed great latitude and were given repeated warnings to cease the LYING and ABUSE, and when it because clear to JR that they had no intention of heeding those warnings, he had to act, and quite properly so.
No has been banned for their convictions; they were banned for their dishonesty and incivility in promoting them.
Dont' be saddened. Its a great day for Free Republic. We're getting back to our conservative roots. Most of the banished posters had been promoting a liberal candidate named Rudy Giuliani for POTUS. They forgot what conservatism was all about. For some, they never really understood what conservatism was all about. For their ignorance and arrogance, they paid a price. ZOTTED!
JimRob has had enough of all the pro-liberal BS and anti-conservatve rhetoric being spewed on HIS forum. Around FR advancing conservatism, defending and defeating liberalism the are the key reasons this forum exists.