Posted on 01/25/2002 9:38:23 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Way too many vanity threads lately. And way too much trash being posted. Please try to stay on topic (politics). Also, please do a search on a significant word from the title of your article before posting. This will reduce the number of duplicates. And, along these same lines, please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles. This will also help to reduce the number of duplicates.
And, whatever else you do, please DO NOT post from DEMOCRATS UNDERGROUND (or any other such trashy un-American socialist hangout). Free Republic was intended to be a socialist free zone. We've gone to a heck of a lot of trouble to make it that way. Why in the world would you think we would be interested in having their trash posted here?
And QUIT trashing each other. You know who you are. Knock it off! Way too many flamewars and feuds going on. And, while I'm thinking about it, QUIT trashing our conservative candidates. If you want to criticize someone's position on some policy, have at it. But do not trash or smear the man. That would include Browne, Buchanan, Bush, Keyes, et al, or whomever else may be your favorite trashee (examples listed in alphabetical sequence). The idea is to get more conservatives elected, not to trash the ones you don't like. If you want to trash someone, make it a Democrat. Thank you.
And QUIT dredging up old communist propaganda to smear our conservatives. Sheesh! Whatever else you may think about our guys, they did not hijack airliners full of people and crash them into buildings. No, my friends, not even the dreaded CIA. Anyone who would believe (or even suspect) that crap is no FReeper. I've been pulling this crap whenever I see it and several people have been banned for continuing to post it. I do not want it on Free Republic. Any current FR poster who believes this leftist propaganda, please logoff immediately, send me your resignation via email, and I will delete your account.
Thanks,
Jim
There is nothing wrong with posts from FR members that are experiencing a crisis in their life. Especially from members that have contributed much to FR. If you don't like certain kinds of vanity posts don't read it. I see other subject threads on FR that have nothing to do with politics ranging from religion to sports to science to trivia. If I am not interested I don't read the thread. What's the big deal? Actually there is something to be said about having a little bit of human touch on this board.
From your keyboard to the keyboards (and brains of so many others!)
BTTT
What side is that? Getting tough to tell these days. It's been a few DECADES since conservative and republican have been close to synonymous. Do you have a problem with conservatives criticizing some of the policies coming out of the GOP these days? Why do I think your definition of “trashing” is really just “tough criticism” of republicans whose policies are little differentiated from the polices of the Democratic Party. But perhaps you are a little confused. FR is a conservative forum...NOT a republican forum. If you don't like some of the conservative heat here tell your party to wake up and figure out who their base is.
What then is the answer to the problem? It is to recruit from the right and try to give them a platform. This is hard to do when you are being criticized by emotional and pointless name calling. Since we agree on more than 80% of the issues, why let the 20% prevent consensus and cause division? Why can't we be grown ups and learn from each other while at the same time work for our republican candidates and get them elected so that we have a platform to stand on?
We do? I'd say the inverse of that would be closer to the truth for most conservatives. BTW, I didn't get that read from GOPJ at all.
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