[George W. Bush]

What WhistlingPastTheGraveyard is saying is the equivalent of one guest demanding that the host throw other guests out of the party, isn't it?

Pretty much. JimRob may look at the smaller group of RP supporters and just realize it's far too much trouble to keep the peace with us here. Or he might decide to keep us here just so people don't think they can force him into banning other groups they hate (Harpyism) because they will expect the same again the next time they don't like some group.

I'm speculating too much in open forum of course, not my habit. And I've been here long enough to know that JimRob keeps his own counsel and does exactly what he wants. Because it is his living room and we are all guests at his party.

However, JimRob does have a fundamental instinct toward the most free speech he can grant here at FR. It's just that some FReepers make it hard for him to do that sometimes without have a circus of flamewars.

[jmeagan]

****However, JimRob does have a fundamental instinct toward the most free speech he can grant here at FR. It’s just that some FReepers make it hard for him to do that sometimes without have a circus of flamewars.***

As a veteran of the old flame war days, I can say that I have never seen a thread here that approached that type of flame war. In the flame wars of the early to middle 90’s, it was a balance to see how nasty you could be without getting kicked off the forum. Sorry Freepers, but the old TH forum was the best forum ever on the Internet. I would say that Freepers approached it in the late 90’s. In its last few years, TH became a self regulating forum with virtually no moderators. If a person was a real jerk or A@@hole, people just never responded to his posts and he went away. I would think that if the old TH was still going, the arguments against Ron Paul would be on a much higher intellectual level than what I have seen here. IOW, his opponents would be discussing why his non interventionist policy was incorrect rather than calling him a coward.