I suggest you revisit post #13 and see that there are facts that Fred Thompson voted on accasion in ways that would never be considered conservative.
Now I personally believe Fred Thompson is conservative but I would never cast disparaging remarks as you did, actually slurs, at the poster in #13 especially as he presented factual data in a cohesive way. The thing to do in such a case is to compare and contrast the many conservative votes Fred Thompson made and put the votes mentioned in post #13 in context.
I would also never carry over an observation on one issue to another issue as you did. That MAN50D believes Fred Thompson voted in non-conservative ways does not diminish the merits of a tax reform proposal.
freerepublic.com was once a forum that many highly accomplished and publicly known posters in anonymity used to gather around. Many of these fine posters have dispersed to other venues because of the childish heckling and substandard level of discourse that took root in the forums.
IOW ‘brain rot’ and other such are noninformative, distasteful, substandard and disruptive.
You added HOT AIR and nothing more. Apparently you are proud of that.
Now that you have raised objections to the FairTax proposal I will address those in the next post. I can already see you have drank the koolaid put out by the propagandists. I will show you where.
I had those objections after I read the book, the one you have not read yet, before I saw any articles that ran contrary to the FT meme.
And I will be magnanimous and give in on the "socialist" bit even though it was wrong, there is still the main statement by your peer that FDT did not have a vast majority of support on FR, which indeed he actually did, including the support of it's founder...
But again, details...
And I still find FR to be a forum of solid discourse on a wide variety of topics.
I can dance this dance all day but I can save you some trouble, I have read the defenses of the "Fair tax" on this very forum, indeed it was at the insistence of one of your more lucid peers that I gave the book, the one you have not read yet, a second read. I have yet to see my objections addressed outside the same tired circular rhetoric and propaganda, I highly doubt you would be any different.