Posted on 04/24/2007 10:22:39 AM PDT by Al Simmons
About me:
Lurker - since 1998
Member - since 1999
In self-imposed exile - since April 2007
The tone of the debate and the attacks on long-time fellow Freepers for the cardinal sin of daring to support Rudy Giuliani in early 2007 around here have really saddened me. Instead of fighting the enemy FR is now imposing an 'ideological purity' test on FR members. The well-oiled train has gone off the rails and Mr. Robinson risks becoming the next Joe Farah - a fellow who started a great website for conservative news and opinions, but who gradually drifted off to la-la land, losing all credibility - and readership - in the process.
He has set himself squarely in the Internet media spotlight, doused himself with gasoline, and and lighted himself on fire - a fact that has not escaped the attention of the left-wing lunatics at Daily Kos. Their reporting on what has been going on at FR is perhaps the first factually true account published on their site.
Jim, if that quote of yours about setting up an organization to 'Swiftboat Rudy' is accurate as quoted in their article, the only thing I have to say to you is that you ought to be ashamed of yourself, as you have now become the back-stabber of the conservative cause.
If you wish to marginalize this site by turning it into a narrow "several-issue" forum, that is your right. Just as it is my right to choose to not participate here any longer.
But you will be disappointed if you think that the crude, illiterate "goon squad" you have allowed free rein around here (dmw, narses, dirtboy, extremely extreme extremist, ReaganMan and several others - if I have slighted anyone, please email me if you want onto this list) will elevate the level of intellectual debate.
The result has been predictably in the other direction. That is what happens when you hire a bunch of brown shirts to enforce your own brand of political correctness.
Well, guess what? Politics is 99% BS and one can quite nicely live one's life without the need to bloviate about it. I know how I am going to vote. I could care less about anyone else. Life is too short to waste my time around here when I am clearly one of those made to feel like they are not welcome.
So, go ahead Jim -
MAKE MY DAY. BAN ME. I DARE YOU.
Hello
What brings you to this thread? ; )
Just little bored wanted too see whats up
Watching another Rudite implode?
Yeah LOL!
Silverback, you are still a class act.
I see plenty of RudyBots around here; the only ones taking any heat are the ones literally asking for it.
Conservative:
For Life, For Marriage, For Gun rights, For enforcing immigration laws, for lower taxes, for lower government spending.
Rudy:
For abortion on demand, for state-sanctioned homosexuality, for gun grabbing, for open borders, for breaking the law to protect immigrant criminals, for higher taxes, for increased government spending.
Hillary:
For abortion on demand, for state-sanctioned homosexuality, for gun grabbing, for open borders, for breaking the law to protect immigrant criminals, for higher taxes, for increased government spending.
Shouldn’t voters get a choice?
“But you will be disappointed if you think that the crude, illiterate “goon squad” you have allowed free rein around here (dmw, narses, dirtboy, extremely extreme extremist, ReaganMan and several others - if I have slighted anyone, please email me if you want onto this list)”
Add me to the “goon list.”
Thank you, FRiend. (Water off a duck’s back, baby, water off a duck’s back)
“FR is now imposing an ‘ideological purity’ test on FR members.”
The author of that line should get his psychoactive meds adjusted - STAT!
Good grief. Rudy is NOT a conservative and worthy of an opus. (And as opuses go that was pretty lame.) Rudy is self-destructing on his own, now that the FACTS are out about his positions. I was sick of being attacked by those supporting Rudy on those one-sided Rudy threads. Rudy is not the saviour of the Republican Party. FR was not a free place to post comments...NOW it is much more balanced. If you want to storm off go right ahead. It’s still a FRee world.
Source = Christopher Anderson’s book “George and Laura”. It can be bought pretty cheap on the internet.
Stop stalking me. I do not go around sliming Bush....it came up on a thread about a man with a drinking problem with Bush as a role model. YOU are making a mountain out of a mole hill and sound unbalanced to me and I am requesting YOU stop posting to me.
I made all the concessions I am going to make on this subject. This conversation is over. Have a good day.
FR is always at its best in opposition, talk it out. In the ten years or so that I have been hanging around this site, I have seen them come and go but there has been a remarkable core consistency in political belief, JimRob is only a voice, a consistent one, in shaping that belief
Tells me a lot about how your mind works
You posted that to yourself?
LOL, no on another thread I was being harrassed and accidently posted it here. I posted it to the appropriate FReeper when I realized it.
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