[mtntop3]

In all kindness, sir, your words have “managed to cause” wonder as to just whom has appointed you a chief high-priest of conservative ideology - and the answer is readily apparent: yourself.

There is sometimes, I'm sorry to state, a smothering and poisonous and feverish political correctness on the right that is the flip side of that homicidal version promulgated so vehemently by the left.

You say you “like giving (your) opinion here..to cause others to think about where we are, really are...and where our political hacks intend to take us...”

I have a lot of respect, sir, for certain “political hacks” because they have had the character and courage and discipline to publicly put their lives actively on the line in a democracy (and oftentimes in the U. S. military) to stand up for something - rather than being permanently sited in front of a two-dimensional video screen and mewing about how terrible things are.

It isn't all that difficult to be a keyboard warrior. If we want to grasp some reality, we could do worse than run for dog catcher.

[Czar]

"...your words have “managed to cause” wonder as to just whom has appointed you a chief high-priest of conservative ideology..."

So now we have one of the "moderates" (read "leans left") checking in with high dudgeon. "I have a lot of respect, sir, for certain “political hacks...” tells me all I need to know about your particular political slant. In case you missed that specific news bulletin from the founder, FR is a conservative site for conservatives. Conservatives, not faux conservatives, not RINOs, not independents, not moderates, not liberals -- but conservatives. Got it yet?

Direct your sanctimonious gasbaggery to someone on your own political spectrum -- I don't need it.