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"A HOUSE DIVIDED" - Pukin's FReeperversary Rant

Posted on 05/17/2006 7:47:58 AM PDT by Pukin Dog

Edited on 05/17/2006 8:30:59 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." – Abraham Lincoln, 1858

It is getting somewhat strange around these parts when not only the President, but yesterday the First Lady was personally attacked by someone claiming to be a ‘Conservative’. Can there be any doubt that there are forces among us looking to drive a wedge between us?

A few weeks ago, this forum’s owner attempted to remind all of us of the big picture, that regardless of any personal animosity towards the President or Republican Party over their adherence to Conservative principles, that they are still a clear choice over the alternative Democrat Party rule. At that time, I assumed that FReeper-sanity had been restored, and that some of the negative rhetoric aimed at those in Washington D.C. would be dialed back.

Free Republic is a political forum with a proud history and vision, responsible for dragging Dan Rather from his post, and providing countless radio-talk shows with their daily talking points. FReepers are unique in their determination and energy towards protecting and defending the goals of our Founding Fathers.

We are also quite a powder keg of emotion and anticipation, expecting our Republican majorities to take advantage of this opportunity to make permanent gains in our Conservative agenda. Some might argue that this opportunity has been squandered, but those persons would be ignorant of history, lacking understanding that change cannot occur overnight in Washington, and that this is the way our Founders designed our Republic.

In frustration, impatience, and ignorance, we have allowed this forum to become a haven for those who do not share our Conservative goals. I do not blame our enemies anymore then I would blame a scorpion for stinging me. If anger and stupidity were one’s nature, I would expect the trolls that infect this forum to be angry and stupid consistently, which also makes them somewhat easy to detect.

The trolls are not the problem, though. The problem is that so many of us are allowing ourselves to be taken in by those who seek only to prevent us from going to the polls in November to keep their stinking hands off our government for another term. There can be no doubt, that no matter how disappointing our current government has been in promoting the Conservative agenda, that the alternative, enabled by our staying home will be MUCH worse.

The way to deal with Republicans who have actively worked against our goals is to defeat them in Primary elections. We do not even have to defeat them all, only enough of them to send the message that we will indeed target them if they work against our agenda. It should be the goal of EVERY conservative to see that Lincoln Chaffee is defeated in November. His seat is one we can afford to lose. Were I a Rhode Island resident, I would vote for the Democrat if only to send a message to Snowe, Hagel, Collins, Graham, and especially that bastard Specter that their primaries just got a lot tougher.

We only need to get one of them, and Chaffee is the one to get. It does not really matter if a Democrat takes his seat; he will be junior and mute as long as we maintain our overall majority in the Senate.

The one thing that bothers me here like nothing else, is the simple disrespect of the President. Am I am Bush-Bot? Damn straight I am. If you want to know why, click on my handle to read Southack’s excellent list of Bush’s accomplishments in office. But if Bush had done almost nothing in office, it would be no excuse for some of the slights and disrespect he has received from some of us on this forum.

Some of the things I have read here this past week match in tone what one can find on our favorite Democrat sewer site. Someone calling himself or herself a FReeper was promoting shooting aliens at the border until they stopped coming. Is that what we are about? Obviously not, and that so-called Conservative has been eliminated from this forum.

I think it is important to remember that you and I have just as much responsibility as George Bush does in changing our culture to better reflect Conservative values. Right now, this very moment, Conservatives have the government they deserve. We put them there. They are not our mommies and daddies sent out to bring home our Conservative bread. That responsibility lies with all of us. These Republicans represent us, they don’t serve us. Our job is to pick the best individual and send him/her to Washington in the hope that their CHARACTER will see them through.

This is why it is such a nutty thing to consider punishing the Republican party, when we should be letting them know that we’ve got their back, but if they cant do the job, we will replace them with ANOTHER Republican, instead of handing the reigns of government to the party of anger, hopelessness and despair. We sometimes like to think that those people we send to Washington are different from us, that they are capable of meeting our every need and desire.

I want every one of you to think about what you would consider to be your perfect mate. Maybe some of you think you have found that person. If you are married and totally in love with another person, that is great. Now I want to ask you to think about the last time that person you love, who is PERFECT for you, completely pissed you off. Remember, this is your perfect mate, your one true love. Do they do everything you want them to do? Obey your every desire? If you answer yes, I am going to put you on my troll list.

Those people in Washington do not even cut your lawn, yet you expect perfection. Get over it.

I am issuing a challenge to every person who considers him or her to be a Conservative; why don’t we all commit to a return to HONOR? Do we honor our Conservative agenda when we comport ourselves in disgraceful ways? Is it an honorable thing to suggest that our President is a moron, as I read here a few days ago? Is it honorable to attack Laura Bush or any other person representing true Conservative values?

Some of you might argue that George Bush is not representing Conservative values to your liking. I would remind you that the first thing Bush said upon taking office, is that he was going to be President of ALL the people, not just some. You know that if you followed Bush from the beginning that he campaigned of the very immigration platform he is defending right now. Did you vote for him? Yeah?

If you have ever had a steak at a Ruth’s Chris restaurant, you know that sometimes they bring that wonderful steak to your table with a sprig of parsley on it. I hate parsley. Hate it. If I were to treat my steak the way some of us want to treat our President, I would have to throw out the steak, due to that nasty parsley that comes with it. I can deal with the parsley to get the steak, and that is what I am asking FReepers to do.

Expecting perfection from any person, group or team is a recipe for disaster. George W. Bush is my president. You can disagree with him, you can blame him for your problems if that is your desire. If you disrespect his office, his service, his risking his life to be with our troops in Iraq, his steadfast desire to bring a new tone to Washington, or if you just like the way he keeps Democrats so pissed off they lose their minds on a regular basis, I ask you to treat him and his wife with respect and cut the personal attacks. If you call him ‘Shrub’ or ‘Jorge’ consider yourself my enemy.

Right now, our real enemy are the Main Stream Media, the Democrat Party, and all who follow and support them. If you want to jump-ugly on someone, why not start with those leaky bastards and give our side a break?

Do it for Pukin.

I knew that you could.


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To: Mo1
A women with and class would not have posted what she just did It was uncalled for and out of line

But that doesn't really answer the question of man vs. woman, does it?
2,561 posted on 05/17/2006 10:33:47 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: Texasforever


FOTFLOL!


2,562 posted on 05/17/2006 10:34:09 PM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: NinoFan


Dis you see the post?


2,563 posted on 05/17/2006 10:34:39 PM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: Pukin Dog

Well, if troll baiting was your goal, today has been like fishing at a hatchery. Quite a freeperversary gift.

It's been fun. Thanks for hosting the party.


2,564 posted on 05/17/2006 10:34:43 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: RegulatorCountry
"nothing but a keyboard jockey on FR boards......"

Sorry, I take exception to that.

2,565 posted on 05/17/2006 10:34:49 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: swheats

Hey, swheats

I thought you were long gone from here. Glad to see you. Hope all is well with you.


2,566 posted on 05/17/2006 10:35:24 PM PDT by ClancyJ (To cause a democrat to win is the most effective way to destroy this country.)
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To: Mo1

Grow Up?
No Thanks.


2,567 posted on 05/17/2006 10:35:58 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: Texasforever

I wont lower myself to do that. She's a guttersnipe and should be ignored.


2,568 posted on 05/17/2006 10:36:29 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: NinoFan
"Pardon me, but what difference does it make if the person who posted that was a man or a woman?"

It may be hard for some to understand, but some men were raised to give a little extra respect to ladies. I guess it depends on the area you grew up in.
2,569 posted on 05/17/2006 10:36:56 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Juan Williams....The DNC's "Crash test Dummy" for talking points.)
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To: nopardons

; ).


2,570 posted on 05/17/2006 10:37:01 PM PDT by pollyannaish
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To: Texasforever

You are welcome.
That was a great movie...not theremake with Sharon Stone, but the origianl.
The little kid was great.
I am the man.


2,571 posted on 05/17/2006 10:38:25 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: Tribune7

Perot didn't give us Klinton, Bush 41 gave us Klinton.


2,572 posted on 05/17/2006 10:39:26 PM PDT by SeaWolf (Orwell must have foreseen the 21st Century Democratic Party when he wrote 1984)
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To: Sir Gawain
Oh please. I've been a freeper in good standing for nearly six years. I doubt I've been suspended any more than the average freeper. Sure I've gone overboard a few times, but I'm not some disruptor.

What an interesting statement... It brings to mind something like "making up your own opinion, but not your own "facts".

It is quite ambitious to simultaneously decide what the average Freeper is, but by implication suggest there is an unavoidable number of times a Freeper needs to be suspended in order to be usefully informative or passionate.

Care to tell us your guess?

An average of 0.1 times a year?
Once a year?
Ten times a year?
Once a week ....?

2,573 posted on 05/17/2006 10:40:05 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: pollyannaish
Yeah, and I loved having the mods and Jim Robinson pop in from time to time, it was like having wingmen again. I gotta go to bed, I want to go fishing tomorrow, and I need to get up early.
2,574 posted on 05/17/2006 10:40:40 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Pukin Dog
I make no bones about the fact that I am a traditionalist. I expect men to go off the deep end, but not women. Maybe it says more about me then the poster? I've never equated vulgarity with females.

Well, I'm not going to attack your traditionalism, but the second part of your post, "You really should call it a night" did seem rather bossy and chauvinistic when combined with the first part of your post. Based on the first part, I doubt you would have said that to a man who said the same thing, so it came off like you were ordering the "lesser sex" around. I doubt that's really you, though. You seem like a good guy. But it did sound chauvinistic to my years, and I am most certainly NOT a PC-type.
2,575 posted on 05/17/2006 10:40:57 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: feinswinesuksass; Texasforever
He is a gentleman, but you're no lady and you're bordering on a Feminazi, Hillary clone, about now.

He is hardly "patronizing" and after your posts to this thread, it is amazing that you can post that drivel with a straight face! Get out of the gutter and stop imagining that men and women are equal; they aren't and never shall be...in that way.

2,576 posted on 05/17/2006 10:41:29 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Please post heat you found to be offensive about my posts. I never once posted profanity, but you and a few others seem to think I have crossed some line. Besides the Puking Dog gif which was immediately removed, please detail my offense that you deem worthy of a mouth washing.
2,577 posted on 05/17/2006 10:41:45 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: feinswinesuksass

Change heat to What....


2,578 posted on 05/17/2006 10:42:14 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: onyx

I'm not defending it. I was just commenting on the man vs. woman aspect of the responses to it.


2,579 posted on 05/17/2006 10:42:33 PM PDT by NinoFan
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To: Publius6961

Not enough, and should have been permanent :-)


2,580 posted on 05/17/2006 10:43:30 PM PDT by MJY1288 (THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
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