Then try some Xanax and calm yourself down.
Your basic problem as I see it Norm, is that you and your ilk spend so much time fighting the LAST war, that you fail to get fully focused on THIS war, the one in front of us.
Were mistakes made in the last war? Sure. Were they made deliberately and maliciously by FReepers who wanted to do harm to our Republic? Oh hell no, and we both know that. Any damn fool can judge and condemn, but how constructive is that? Does your ego need some kind of stroking to assure you that “you were right and everyone else (including our Founder) was wrong?”
The gist of that thread I cited sure suggests that. You stated in that thread to JimRob that you disagreed with his decision but that you would “respect it”. So what is the point of this never ending barrage 3+ years later of DISRESPECT for your fellow FReepers who did nothing more than follow the lead of our Founder?
I have quoted former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld many times, in which he said “you go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had”, and in 2012, the only army with a chance of winning was the one headed up by the GOP ticket. I submit to you that those who chose to vote for that ticket were motivated not so much by what Romney stood for, but by their absolute opposition and hate for Obama, and even if misguided, they acted with the best of intentions. A smaller minority (including you) chose to be conscientious objectors and sat it out on the sidelines, and now have created a rhetorical cottage industry of accusing, lambasting and name calling those who chose to fight with the only political means available to them, which was the admittedly flawed GOP ticket. It’s all they had, they did the best they could with the choices before them.
Now we can continue this for as long as you want, but I will not accept your blanket condemnations and judgments of good and decent FReepers as ‘liberals’ and ‘RINOs’ all because you have failed to grant them the respect you graciously offered our Founder in that thread of 20 August 2012 when he reached one of the most difficult decisions to face him in recent years.
Cut the rest of those who followed his example some slack, ok? It would speak well of you.
Just so you know, I read as far as your second sentence. So you wasted a lot of typing for nothing.
I don’t care how you see it.