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fieldmarshaldj, what gives you the impression that I am a “pro-Slick Willard” ideologue? Was it the fact that I thought it was a little scary that someone was harboring such a seething, creepy rage against Mitt Romney that they took the time to put in what appeared to be hundreds of keywords at the head of a thread they did not start, and that some of those keywords were pretty disturbing in their nature?

I am not here to pump up Romney or pump him down. I don’t really care about Romney, one way or the other. I certainly don’t think he is evil incarnate the way some do and for all his apparent faults, I would rather have him as my Governor rather than a cup of piss like Deval Patrick. As a Massachusetts resident who has lived under both of them, I am qualified to have an opinion on that. I think it is a bit unbalanced the way some people have a completely unhealthy fixation on Romney, not saying that you do, because I don’t really know you other than seeing your handle around. Nothing personal there, but your “you guys to understand” comment seemed odd to me.

I have a lot of respect for Jim Robinson. I make my donations each cycle, because I believe FR is an important environment, and I am grateful for his continued desire to maintain Free Republic. If Jim Robinson doesn’t want my opinions on Free Republic, and doesn’t want my money, that is his decision. I am not one of those idiots who screams that his freedom of speech is being impinged on because Jim Robinson may disagree. As far as I am concerned, it his HIS web site and he can run it as he sees fit. He is a capitalist, and as a nice byproduct, gives conservatives a place to exchange ideas and bounce arguments off of each other.

I spend a lot of time on FR, almost to the exclusion of any other website. And I read a lot of posts on FR that I disagree vehemently with, diatribes that I view as racist and points of view that I see as dangerous. But if there is one principle of conservatism that I have a heartfelt and steadfast affinity for, it is the concept that words have actual meaning and even if I disagree with a given point of view, that person has a right to speak. I have a right to disagree, and it is also my right to tear down a point of view on the basis of logic rather than knee-jerk emotion and pure ideology.

So, when I see someone who cannot make the distinction between a candidate like Scott Brown and a candidate like Martha Coakley, or a person who draws a equivalence between Barney Frank and George W. Bush, then that isn’t someone I want to associate with on any level, in real life or in virtual life online. In my opinion, if people can’t make that distinction, I think that is pretty sick in and of itself. And I also think the people who are fixated on RINO’s to the detriment of being able to see reality are just as damaging to the fabric of our country as any moonbat who stood outside Walter Reed Hospital with a hateful sign.