[Melinda]

Sorry, but I think posting old articles to keep the hate stirred up for this man shows strange and obsessive behavior. And so will the comments I'll no doubt receive for that opinion. But honestly, we get it already. For those who don't, they never will.

[rabscuttle385]

Sorry, but I think posting old articles to keep the hate stirred up for this man shows strange and obsessive behavior. And so will the comments I'll no doubt receive for that opinion. But honestly, we get it already. For those who don't, they never will.

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[Syncro]

Sorry, but I think posting old articles to keep the hate stirred up for this man shows strange and obsessive behavior.

That is not why this was posted.

To color it in that light is disingenuous to put it mildly.

And to post a false reason for it's posting and then say it shows "strange and obsessive behavior" is...well kinda strange and obsessive.

And so will the comments I'll no doubt receive for that opinion.

If you wish to mischaracterize my comments to you in this reply falsely as that, I'm sorry you don't see how you are in error here.

Yes, "we" get it.

The thousands of people that have signed up at Free Republic (and the tens of thousands of lurkers) since Nov 2008 need to see this and be reminded (or shown for the first time) of McCain's political nature.

Those that are intimidated by your histrionical comments, well that's a shame but your mission was accomplished.

Yes, there are some over the top comments about McCain, but he brought it upon himself.

The shameful, spiteful, envious way he treated Sarah Palin from the very beginning was despicable.

[nathanbedford]

This argument over John McCain is but one more skirmish in the war for the soul of the Republican Party. The argument is not over whether John McCain has been castigated enough for being an ineffectual candidate. The argument is whether the party should go left or right in searching for a path out of the wilderness. So John McCain is attacked because he is a figure of the RINOS in the party.

The RINOS do the same thing every day when a fresh article comes out denigrating Sarah Palin as one did concerning her problems finding McCain operatives with whom she could comfortably pray.

I agree it would be better if we argued issues rather than personalities but that is not human nature. As Saul Alinsky said, personalize your enemy, fix him and destroy him. We are in the midst of a Darwinian struggle for the soul of the Republican Party and, therefore, for the soul of the nation. We cannot do this except when we are in the wilderness where we are today. The process must go on and it must be brutal if it is to be effective. One side must kill the other and articulate a message so compelling that it draws the world to us. We cannot compromise our way out of the minority. We have to become pure and tempered.