Posted on 03/05/2008 1:11:46 PM PST by ken5050
Dear Jim..OK, the GOP now has its candidate. McCain isn't the first choice of the majority of us on FR, and even now, there are spirited, yet for the most part, civil exchanges on the threads as to whether or not some will support the GOP nominee. One of the more unfortunate, and unpleasant events on FR was the mass banishment and/or leaving of a great many Freepers who were supporters of Rudy Guliani for the nomination. I'm posting this to see if you'd be open to the idea of inviting them to return, and see how others might feel about this.
NOBODY was banned for supporting Rudy, they were banned for dismissing the conservative agenda.
I haven’t quit FR even though I’ve had enough of the anti-McCain clowns and their tired, self-absorbed rantings.
A lot of long time FReepers have been banned, and of my FRiends that are no longer welcome here, none of them supported Rudy. I would just like to see a reconsideration of banned accounts.
If you miss them that much, there are places to find many of them. Since some of them are your 'good friends' and you are not precluded from communicating with them without FR, why subject everyone else to the venom that they spew when riled?
Additionally, many of them have reappeared and been banned for the second, third and subsequent times. Let them plead their own cases if they want to come back that badly.
There is an unwritten rule in golf where if the male driver does not exceed the length required to surpass the woman’s tee’s . . .
Nope, not most of the Giuliani/Paul/whoever else supporters. Civil discourse was beneath most of them, and now they cry on their blogs and forums about being banned? I say let them stay there.
By the way, funny this thread comes up right after the sorrowful demise of ETC.
Wow!
Two.
I'm still here, and my tenth anniversary is in May.
Heck, I think any McCain supporters who act the same way ought to be banned, too.
Why? So they can advocate for Rudy as McCain’s VP?
If you go back and read their last few posts it is usually pretty obvious why they were banned.
And lest anyone pretend otherwise, let's not forget that BEFORE any of them were banned they had already formed an anti-FReeper site. They made it clear that they didn't want to be here. The fact that WAnkerville isn't working out the way they wanted it to isn't Jim's fault.
Good idea.
WOW — 18,430 post on Jim’s Rudy/Socialism thread.
does anything prevent the banned conservatives from reregistering under a new account and simply behaving themselves under the rules and principles of the site?
I thought most of those banned were campaign workers, professional viral advertisers, or liberals pushing left wing causes.
I don’t think “amnesty” is a fortunate choice of words.
BTTT! right on, wagglebee. Why let the wolves back in to guard the hens?
I suspect some have signed back up with different screen names, judging by the nastiness of the posts and recent sign-up dates.
Ah, thank you. No wonder I don’t remember this going down... I was in Asia on business.
18,430 posts? Whoa! Is that a record?
If they come back, they will just start recruiting for WAnkerville again and complaining that conservatives have “had their foot on the throat” of the GOP for too long.
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