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To: Melas; La Enchiladita
I’ve decided that I don’t care if my posts are popular. I normally keep my comments about Palin to myself, or heavily self-edit.

Don't ever relinquish your freedom of speech in pursuit of false popularity on some website. In fact, don't ever relinquish it at all. You are not alone. Please see my post #518 on this thread.

FreeRepublic desperately -- and I do mean DESPERATELY -- needs more posters who do not just simply go along with the popular flow here. It's ironic that the Left has been attacking conservatives for exercising their freedom of speech, while on FR anyone who does not agree wholeheartedly with the prevailing popular point of view here is subjected to swarming nastiness intended precisely to shut them up.

536 posted on 01/12/2011 12:59:58 PM PST by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Wolfstar
FreeRepublic desperately -- and I do mean DESPERATELY -- needs more posters who do not just simply go along with the popular flow here.

So let me get this straight. We are in the middle of probably the most unprincipled attack yet on the Tea Party and conservatives. And in your mind we should, at this time, engage in petty ankle-biting against someone at the forefront of the counterattack, instead of putting aside differences for a few days so we can pull together.

Yeah, like I would want you on my team again the next time the sh** hits the fan. Sometimes you need to go with the flow when the situation warrants such.

544 posted on 01/12/2011 1:10:23 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: Wolfstar
It's ironic that the Left has been attacking conservatives for exercising their freedom of speech, while on FR anyone who does not agree wholeheartedly with the prevailing popular point of view here is subjected to swarming nastiness intended precisely to shut them up.

That's patently untrue the way you mean it.

But if you don't agree with the "popular point of view" which just happens to be conservative and positive towards fighting the attacks from the leftists, then you are in the wrong place.

Do you have any problems with the nastiness of the left?

It will always be countered on this website, and it doesn't matter if you like it or not.

553 posted on 01/12/2011 1:19:18 PM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Wolfstar; Melas
Don't ever relinquish your freedom of speech in pursuit of false popularity on some website.

I have lost count of the posts of mine that have been deleted today. Because I critique Sarah, I'm called leftist and a media parrot. This would be in spite of all my other postings to the contrary. Trying to bring rationality to a discussion of Palin is just too hot to handle for some.

576 posted on 01/12/2011 1:58:41 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
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