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Let me explain something to you. I didn't start these threads to support McCain, I did it to try to eliminate some of the flotsam and jetsam that surrounds ANY discussion of him. It's been going on for months and it has been impossible to have any kind of rational discussion about him or his policies. I wanted some analysis and discussion on important topics but anyone who dared try to do that was ridiculed and run off the threads.

There is a group of people on this site that doesn't want anyone to talk about McCain unless it involves throwing feces. Now McCain might deserve despise, but that is up to the individual to decide and they shouldn't be bullied or intimidated into doing so.

He wasn't my candidate, I didn't vote for him. In fact, on the night Romney quit I started a thread called “The Official FR Drinking Thread” so we could wash away our disappointment. Prior to that I started a “McCain Haiku” thread so we could illustrate our displeasure while having a little fun.

But that wasn't the impression you had of me because these self styled censors had already done a job on me and convinced everyone I was some king of McCain-bot. They effectively silenced me and destroyed any objective analysis of my opinions right out of the gate by harassing and intimidating me and others who wanted some kind of useful discussion.

And why did they do this? Because they don't want anyone discussing McCain except how they want him discussed, they don't even want anyone thinking about McCain except the way they want people to think of him.

Now they might be chuckling to themselves and high fiving each other over their “success” but I say they are bad for Free Republic and they are bad for the conservative movement. They are self styled censors and propagandists who care nothing for any opinion that conflicts with their own and they will engage in what I consider to be at best boorish tactics bordering on harassment to achieve it.

Unfortunately, the free wheeling nature of FR and it's loose rules has allowed and encouraged this behavior. But it's always been that way on FR and history keeps repeating itself.

But that doesn't mean it's a good thing.