Posted on 03/28/2006 1:14:49 PM PST by F16Fighter
I post the Pray for President Bush thread twice a week, and one of these not-banned maniacs came on the prayer thread screaming for impeachment (which I believe should be automatic suspension), and then mocked me for saying it was inappropriate.
There are maybe three threads where you can get away from them, but I like to be in the fray, and I can hardly stand it any more because of the utter irrational filth I have to wade through.....
Maybe it is just a glass half empty day. I won't seek another forum, unless some of us create our own, but I'm just not sure this is a place that good people would want to come to any more.....
It IS working. They are in the process of destroying this forum.
Hey, I may not be a newbie, but I try to be as vitriolic and contentious as I can!
Just buck up then, take a breath, and go back in. :~D
A lot of people are really ticked off about immigration right now, it's a flash issue. I know that, I see it on my TV screen, I see it in thread titles here, I just haven't been sucked into it. I didn't like the tone of it two years ago, I doubt it's improved :~D
No they aren't. You're in a big forest focusing on particular trees. :~D
And you ROCK at it!
Or should I say SUCK at it? ;-)
It's violent.
Question..... Why do you think the issue will fade?
If civil people no longer want to be here (many, many freepers have just had it), and no thread is safe, how is it not destroying the purpose of this forum?
Just like real life.
You two could opus out like this guy did, and you could actually leave the way this guy ~didn't~, but I don't think you'll find another forum that has a healthier or more representative group of people on any other forum. If you find some issue to be angry and contentious around here, then either decide they aren't worth your stress, or just argue the issue better than them. It'd be sad to see you leave and go find your only internet refuge among those bitter people who have made a life out of constantly finding the worst examples HERE.
The same could be said of President Bush, Sen. John McCain, and a whole gaggle of Republicans in Congress and the RNC.
What you FAIL to understand is that this is not a Republican website. It isn't a Bush fan club website. It is a conservative website first and foremost and when any Republican to include the President is acting in a manner counter to the goals and ideas of conservatism, this is where we decry that activity. Yet those of us who attempt to do just that receive all kinds of static and noise from those who don't understand the actual mission of this forum.
I support President Bush and other elected representatives as far as their actions deserve my support. I criticize them when their actions deserve such criticism.
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." -- Theodore Roosevelt, Republican President
So, call me a "maniac" and even call the Secret Service on me. I've done nothing wrong and my statements on Free Republic are consistant with the mission under which this forum is stated to operate. It is your noise and static, and that from others like you who believe that the President and other Republicans can do no wrong, that is counter-conservative and counter-intuitive to the mission of this forum.
I had one make veiled physical threats on me, tell me he hoped I never came home and that I was "going native" a couple of days ago, simply because he failed in his attempt to intimidate me.
I'm telling you, there are some real losers on here and I get weary of it.
You cannot say that President Bush does not represent conservatism at any level, because it is utterly untrue.
His SC justices and his pro-life stance alone, not to mention tax cuts and business policies that have created a booming economy out of a recession, are enough to give him conservative credentials.
People advocating impeaching him or violence are not conservative at ANY level. He IS conservative at many levels. Those are facts.
(I'm not going to defend McCain.......he's another story).
First time I read this I thought you typed "persuasive" instead of "pervasive". I nearly choked. But I couldn't agree with you more. And as Allegra said, most are noobs. Interestingly, a lot seemed to have signed up right after Bush won the last election. This kind of thing has happened before. Eventually, the ring leaders get shown the door and the rest of the sheep follow. Then they rant and rave on some alternative website about how bad this place is. Meanwhile, the core remain. And the foundation of the site grows even stronger. JimRob is a good man who knows his business. I'll be here for a long time after the last "hate filled lunatic" is gone.
"Again and again"?? Lol, EXCEPT when your and your gonads were hiding under your bed LAST NIGHT. Or was it under your "bunker"?
Btw, we ALL know important the Mods are to your FR life, Skippy. Oh...Is that trigger-happy finger been tempted to hit the "abuse" button yet?
It'll fade because our collective attention span is short and the media's attention span is even shorter. What to do about it will be decided, tried for awhile, and we'll move on to the next big issue.
That's why Allegra is seeing so many people wringing their hands on Iraq, because we're basically so successful and spoiled in America we expect to win quickly and move on and we don't like it when there's no easy answers and it takes too long.
The lesson on conservatism and FR was deliciously condescending, but completely unnecessary.........and not a bit surprising coming from you.
(Sob, sniffle) Yeah -- Coop needs to beg for all the help and cover he can get.
Aaaw, need a kneenex, Skippy?
Bingo
I think the glass half empty analogy may be on target. Self-imposed 'time out' will do the trick, perhaps, other than my posting obligations.
Holy Week seems a good time to do that. Iraqi freedom vet son coming home for Easter as well as younger daughter.
Life is good apart from FR. :)
But keep a towel handy. ;)
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