Welcome to FreeRepublic!
I hope you find it as addictive as I have.
As you might be able to tell from my tagline, I'm a die-hard America First! Buchananite who has been here almost 7 years.
Others may have a different view regarding the brouhaha with ALIPAC, but from my own take on it, it's interwined in a feud that goes back about 5 years to the Y2K presidential campaigns. That's approximately the time that an article by Steve Sailer from VDARE was banned for racist content. I was a participant on that thread, and was one of the ones who requested that it be banned. Sailer responded with an attack against FR in an attempt to justify his bigotted screeds.
When William Gheen wrote his hitpiece against FR, VDARE was one of the fringe sites he chose to defend. As far as I'm concerned, that discredited anything else that he had to say.
As you might imagine, there's a LOT more to the story over a five year period. But from my humble perspective, that's it in a nutshell. As a staunch Buchananite, I strongly oppose illegal immigration. But I will NOT side with those crapweasels who attack this forum to "promote" their agenda.