Russ, you’re a RINO. You pass up all the other things I say on that post and focus on the fact that you’re one of about 4-500 posting freeper who have actually been here longer than I have, as if that means you’re a conservative.
If no one is welcome here anymore but conservatives who pass your litmus test or agrees with you (”Spout your garbage on a GOP website”)then Jim might as well shut this place down.
***First of all, that’s hyperbole, a straw argument. Second of all, it is a hypothetical, and I’ll answer your hypothetical if you answer all of mine that were posted in the article. Third, I cannot enforce a litmus test and you know it. Fourth, JimRob is the owner of the website and he has defined conservatism. Does your viewpoint match that definition? Just from the posts on this thread alone, the answer is NO. You’re a partisan, not a conservative. If you don’t like the definition I’m using, get JimRob to change it. Who knows, maybe you’ll manage to get rid of me by doing that because I will be the one who is not welcome here, since I am very comfortable with the current definition.
There have to be inclusion standards, so that some guy from the Mongolian-Tree-Worshipping-Skinhead-Yoga Party can’t pay his entrance fee just to be able to babble on national television.
But a U.S. congressman ... long-time chairman/ranking member of the Armed Services Committee ... is NOT a frivolous candidate. And I for one do not want media-manipulated opinion polls deciding for me who the “real” candidates are.