I hope you don't ban them just for being DU'ers. Definitely ban them if they are disruptors, who post character attacks or incendiary lies or obscenities or engage in other tactics designed to preclude reasoned debate and commentary. Usual those instances are pretty obvious, and I've certainly notified the Moderators myself when a blatant situation such as that arises.
But someone with a liberal viewpoint who provides fair commentary along with facts and links to articles and other information can be very valuable. It is unfortunate that there aren't more "honest" liberals who are willing to engage in honest debate. The reason is that they generally get their clocks cleaned on this site; facts and logic are not terribly favorable to liberal dogma. (As Larry Elder likes to say, facts are to liberals as Kryptonite is to Superman.)
Once in a while I'll visit the DU site just to see what they are obsessing over. The most striking characteristic of their threads is the almost total lack of negative feedback. If facts are wrong but nevertheless pleasant (at least from their point of view), there is seldom anyone around to correct those errors. Urban myths which have long since been exploded just keep being recycled over there. And on rare occassions when someone does try to post a correction or link to a contrary article, that person is immediately branded a Freeper or a traitor for making them feel bad.
In contrast, Free Republic acts as a news filter. If someone posts an article on FR that is highly favorable towards conservatives or Republicans, or highly unfavorable towards liberals or Democrats, but is nevertheless based on total bullsh!t, that thread will quickly be debunked by swarms of other Freepers. That's our great strength and DU's great weakness.
The understatement of the year.
I've been on a lot of forums...Back to Usenet days. Nothing, and I mean absolutely, positively, nothing comes CLOSE to the knowledge found on Free Republic. The talent here is incredible. Opposition doesn't stand a chance here. I'm surprised anyone even trys.
And what is this evil that triumphs when good men do nothing? What are we really talking about here and is it worth fighting for? Is it worth turning our heads and allowing evil to continue on while we do nothing? (and I count voting for a third party candidate when knowing that he has absolutely no chance of defeating the Democrat, and worse, actually planning and hoping to knock out the Republican candidate who otherwise might have defeated the Democrat, as doing nothing).
Corruption is accepting campaign cash from the Chinese in exchange for military hardware. Corruption is accepting campaign cash as bribes from Indonesian power brokers, from Buddhist Monks, from corrupt corporate moguls. Corruption is defined by the myriad criminal acts and practices of the Clintons and the Gores and their corrupt Democrat minions.
Corruption is the land grabs, the power grabs, the gun grabs, the bribery, the shady deals, the high crimes and treason. Corruption is the theft of campaign dollars through forced labor union deductions. Corruption is the systematic indoctrination of several generations of our youth with socialist dogma via government school systems. Corruption is the removal of God from public life and substituting in the evil homosexual/feminist agenda and the destruction of moral society. Corruption is lying to the public about global warming and the selling of the Kyoto treaty. Corruption is giving up our national sovereignty to the United Nations. Corruption is the abuses of office, obstruction of justice, lying, perjury and subornation of perjury.
The Democrat Party is thoroughly corrupt. There is no question about that, but it's way beyond corrupt. It's also evil.
Waco was evil. The killing of innocent men, women, children and babies is evil. Torturing them for weeks on end, gassing them, and then burning them alive is pure evil. This was perpetrated by a corrupt and evil Democrat Administration and covered-up by corrupt and evil Democrat Congressmen and Senators, many of whom you are saying should be allowed to remain in office even today.
And as bad as that is, it pales in comparison to the Democrat government sanctioned and funded wholesale slaughter of the most innocent life of all, the murder of innocent human life in the womb. This is evil. Pure evil. And this evilness is openly perpetrated by a thoroughly corrupt and evil Democrat Party. The same corrupt and evil Democrat Congress and Judiciary whom you are now saying deserve to remain in office.
IMHO, allowing these Democrats to remain in power is aiding and abetting the corruption and treason, and is acting as an accessory before and after the fact to the murderers of innocent human life. Is doing nothing and allowing this evil to triumph evil itself?
I love my country. I love the Constitution. I love life. I love God. I know that the Democrats hate my country, hate the Constitution, hate God and hate human life. I see that the only Party capable of blocking and defeating the evil Democrats is the Republican Party. I see that many races are so close that as little as a one percent siphon of conservative votes to a third party could be the difference between success and failure. I see allowing a Democrat to remain in power when it could have been prevented as a triumph of evil.
JIM ROBINSON
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- The Republican Party, already assured of Senate control, is mounting a determined campaign to oust freshman Sen. Mary Landrieu in a Louisiana runoff next month and deal another blow to discouraged Democrats.
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Dan Allen, spokesman for National Republican Senatorial Committee, said Friday a Terrell victory would be a coup.
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"It's important because it allows Republicans to have another senator who will work with the President to get things done," he said.
A lot of times when I find an interesting topic on this forum I can't help but going there to read their intellectual insight on the same thing.
OK I confess... It's kind of like checking out a car crash... You really don't want to look, but you can't help yourself.