[Gracey]

Honey, We're NOT a monolitical group. Get used to it. And we're not all Christians, anti-abortion, AntiGay,WASP, Right Wing. We are EVERYTHING to the right of the Leftists.

Get used to it.

We need the variety or else we'd just be talking to ourselves. BTW, I lean toward your side of the spectrum.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Ditto.

Even a fairly prosaic topic like the "Harry Potter" threads were filled with anti-Christian, foul-mouthed, vitriolic name-calling. For every parent who thought the Potter missives might be a bit creepy for their seven-year-olds, there were a dozen flamers who dismissed parents as "religious nut cases."

One wiccan even said (twice; in bold) that I was "worse than the Taliban" because of my dislike for the young wizard.

Where are the old posters of yester-year? Where's Metalbird1? Where's Boyd?

[thusevertotyrants]

Abortion may not be right, but it is a right. The bottom line is this -- do we want the government to have to sanction our living or our death? Or do we decide to have freedom of choice and decision regarding our lives and our bodies. My answer to the abortion questuion is this - Intelligent moral individuals do not choose abortion unless in extremis - but I do not take away freedom to ensure that everyone lives by my own moral code .. what happens on the day big brother decides it is YOUR morals and beliefs that are wrong - what do you say then?

[blackdog]

Congratulations on trolling FR for crazyfish. I would say you hooked a ton of them based on the nonsense flying around.

[Gracey]

Has anyone noticed that the Liberal influence has spread here into Free Republic. I notice that less and less Conservatives seem to post here, and more and more Libertarians seem to be.

And you have the balls to say this when you've been on here since Nov 13, 2001, honey?

[thefactor]

Look at the numbers. How many people belonged here in the time frame you are talking about back in 2000? How many people belong now. I agree the site is evening itself out in terms of political views. But you need to ask yourself:

Is this a bad thing?
Is it hindering any true conservatives from getting their message out?

I think the answer to both is no. This is still overwhelmingly a right wing site. And this lefties who are not persuaded by the eloquence of our arguments will surely lose interest in this site sooner or later.

[Rogmonster]

Bump for later laughter.

[Osinski]

Whatever do you mean?

[jlogajan]

there is really a huge Gender gap with Female Voters tending toward the more liberal candidate

I'm not sure why you blame Libertarians for disagreeing with this. The Minnesota Libertarian Party ran a survey at the state fair one year and asked several hundred men and women to take a political policy quiz. When sorted by gender, women were in fact noticably more liberal, i.e. paternalistic in their political views. They liked big government better.

So actually real research by Libertarians favors your point of view that women are more socialistic than men. So why get mad at Libertarians?

[IronJack]

This is a standard complaint that is posted at least once every two or three months. It's a special with the "Kvetch of the Month Club." Of course, there's some substance to it. Libertarians have asserted themselves more recently, perhaps because the last election was so klugey. The level of conflict appears to have escalated too; seldom do disagreements get resolved in any kind of amicable fashion anymore. And irrelevant, inane postings seem to be proliferating at the expense of reasoned political discourse. Pregnant Barbies and Expando-Jeans for Men seem the order of the day, while informed analysis of post-Taliban Afghanistan goes begging.

However, FR seems to be remarkably homeostatic. Given enough time, it always seems to restore itself to normalcy.

But every swing of the pendulum seems to get a little longer ...

[breakem]

Your article has a serious illogical statement. You decry the increase of liberal posts and libertarian posters. These two items while tied together by you are not related. The fact that you put them together leads me to question the knowledge and conclusions behind the rest of your post.

[deport]

........What has happened to Free Republic......

A good question you have posed.

Now the better question is......

What would you like to see done about it or what would you do about the perceived problem(s)?

However, maybe you would like to take your complaint over to this thread of Mr. Robinson's from a few days ago and blast away.......

The Censored Republic

News/Current Events
Source: Free Republic
Author: Jim Robinson
Posted on 10/25/01 10:59 PM Central by Jim Robinson


Ok, this is a free for all thread. Come in and take your best shots. I promise I won't delete it or get upset. Get it out of your systems and then we will see if we can solve the problems. There always several sides to any story and several possible solutions to any problem. I'd like to hear them all and I'd like to solve as many problems as we can and get this forum kicking socialist butt again instead of kicking each other. So, please anyone with a complaint or a problem or a possible solution, (moderators, posters, FAB, everyone) please chime in. Thanks, Jim



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[mercy]

This BEFORE I read the thread and I'm sure there will be something to follow AFTER I read it.

Good post! Needs to be discussed.

[dirtboy]

I get a letter from someone named NYpeanut who is mad because I posted a discussion based on the Gender Gap in voting.

Of course, you had to title it What is Wrong with Female Voters? - and there are plenty of good conservative women who vote just fine, thank you, including my wife. So maybe if you didn't generalize so much, you'd catch less flack.

[pcl]

Would you like to rename this site to the "Limited Free Republic." The current name gives the impression that anyone who is interested in a Free Republic can find a home here.

I believe in states rights, the Second Ammenment, small Government, reduced taxation, far less state welfare, capitial punishment and a whole bunch of other things that people identify with conservatives. I have voted Repulican all my life. I believe in the Freedom to pursue life, liberty and happiness on an idivitual basis. I also believe that most of you want this also.

Yet, there are some of you who wish to curtail the freedoms of others. Freedoms such a free choice for women, freedom for homosexuals to live their lives with liberty and happiness, freedom for women to live as equals, freedom for people read what makes them happy, etc. If this site is exclusively for those that hold beliefs in both the first and second catagories, then it really should be named the "Limited Free Republic" since the site really would stand for LIMITED freedom. If the site can benefit from members who believe in the first catagory but not the second, then the current name is justified.

It has been my experience that there only a few members who truely hold to the beliefs in the second catagory. However, it does seem that those very few speak in a loud voice just like the minority liberal protestors we hear and see our street corners.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How many different IDs do you have, anyway?

FF578

member since November 13th, 2001

nocommies

member since March 17th, 2001

[LisaFab]

The 'problem' if there is one, seems to be that many people discover FR and think that they've found heaven with so many posters agreeing with their views. Then, when they begin to post, they find that FR is like any other place in this here USA...mostly great but with some intolerence and not a slim dose of down-right nastiness!

Having survived some of the truly nuclear flame wars, it is my observation that if one posts only to intelligent threads and avoids responding to juvenile name-calling and personal attacks, one can very often still find stimulating discourse.

[wardaddy]

Well FF578....looks like this thread may pull all our foes outta their nests. I have to go home. I look forward to reviewing this one manana if it's still here. You've got some good help on this thread if you need it.

Remember it's higher authority morality versus theirs which is up to the individual. Sort of like those Hebrew National Frankfurter commercials...chin up!!!! Nopardons, I apologize for bailing on you so early in the fight.

[BunnySlippers]

Are Christian Conservatives(Who make up a large part of the Republican core vote) not allowed here anymore?

Christian conservatives may be the "core" of the Republican party but they are certainly not all of it. George W. Bush made a point of marginalizing the Religious Right during the convention and rightly so I believe ... otherwise he would not have won.

[FITZ]

There's some good Libertarians who've been booted too. I'm not really sure what gets someone booted but probably being too rude does, I don't think it's opinions.