[TradicalRC]

Excellent post GWB. I have never used the abuse button and never will. I am after all an adult. Traditional conservatism isn't for sissies.

[George W. Bush]

Excellent post GWB. I have never used the abuse button and never will.

I have. To get a thread of my own removed once (private FReepmail was being posted willy-nilly) and a few other times on really vicious attacks by mad-dog posters who had no doctrinal assertions of any merit or coherence.

The Abuse button does have its place. But not as a way to win the argument by silencing the opposition or removing the evidence that they lost the argument.