This is the road that FR must go down. If we become partisan, we fail.
Because FR is ideological, it has succeeded beyond the founder's greatest expectations.
Amerigomag: “Because FR is ideological, it has succeeded beyond the founder's greatest expectations.”
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No politician, no leader, no person is above commentary on this board. In the end, we shouldn't expect our leadership to emerge unscathed here, of all places. They should view this board as a refining fire, a place to understand true conservative political philosophy - as Amerigomag suggests - ideology.
If our candidates cannot stand the test of this board, how will the stand the tests of reality, the RATs, the terrorists, the socialist lapdog press and all that awaits them? We can help sharpen their resolve, their arguments, their rhetoric, their strategies.
I'm not worried that Sarah Palin, for one, is criticized here. I'd be worried if she weren't. If people are worried that certain people on FR are tearing down Sarah (and some might be), then argue for her, speak out for her and make her case, force the hand of her critics with excellent argumentation. That is what the public square is all about.
For anyone that criticizes and writes off Sarah Palin, I, and if I were you, would ask a simple question - how do you expect to win back the WH in 2012 - be specific. Don't ya know, we have a LONG way to go before then...way too long with the commie-kid in chief installed in the WH currently.
There won't be any left to support. And there certainly won't be any left to run against liberals.
And I challenge FR being a success because its ideological. If that were true, there's isn't a single freeper who would have voted for McCain in 2008. There's no way GWB would have ever won re-election in 2004.
So before you go down that road of declaring what FR is, make darn sure you go back and look at history first.