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I said what I meant, meant what I said, ...

Ah, yes, sincerity of feelings and opinions. An item often a bar to new and fresh communication for many of us.

For others that hold as you do, I offer the following suggested course that might be useful:

First, ask yourself if you have confidance in the general sensibility and intelligence of the members of FreeRepublic.com. Secondly, ask yourself if you have confidence in the efficacy and the sense of your own arguements made on an issue.
If the answer to those two questions is yes, then, in general, we are each then faced with the sensibility of not seeking the last word in most of our exchanges.
This pursuit of the last word, and its implied failure of confidence in our fellow posters and ourselves, is what often leads to the escalation of comments beyond the making of the arguement itself.
Poor arguementation, poor reasoning, low motives and insufficient supporting proofs and character will always show through for all to see.

Your characterized politically irrelevant fring voter (with a tinfoil bent) can safely be welcomed in a forum capable of measuring his arguements by First Principles and even reaching limited common agreement with, when justified.

As we around here a long time have learned, just because perjury in support of Oval Office fellation is unreasonable, it is still a possible reality, no matter how irrelevant, fring or tin-foil such an occurance seems at first encounter.

Lastly, no need to worry about a love fest...this is politics, afterall.