There is no white flag of surrender to choose from.
You're a defeatist "teach the GOP a lesson" poster.
You're going against the purpose of FR, which is to defeat democrats and never give them control of Congress or the White House.
I am NOT surprised you are an '04 sign-on with no state flag.
As I said in #176, I think there is blame on all sides for the present ugliness.
I must say, though, that I think you post (in its entirety in italics above) is an excellent example of the ferocious and nasty ad hominem style that is unfortunately practiced by you and your chums who constitute the crowd often referred to as "bots."
"You're full of useless and inane hypothesis that don't wash.
You're a defeatist "teach the GOP a lesson" poster.
You're going against the purpose of FR, which is to defeat democrats and never give them control of Congress or the White House.
I am NOT surprised you are an '04 sign-on with no state flag."
I am a very intelligent man with an interesting vantage point who is usually dead right in my predictions. I was wrong about Janine Pirro's chances of being elected, it is true, but Jeanine surprised me with her dismal first public performance. Other than that, I'm a place you might want to look if you want to know what is probably going to happen before other folks report it.
I do not want to see the GOP defeated any more than General Longstreet wanted to the see the Army of Northern Virginia defeated at Gettysburg, but I see the facts as they are, and I write based upon what is, and not what I wish it to be. President Bush and the Republican leadership who will not yield on a border fence have inflicted a defeat on the GOP which will be reflected by the poll results in November. It's not me moving the polls. When that happens, it is my hope and expectation that the Republican party will come out the other end with a clearer view, and do what it did with the 1994 Contract With America, and thence onward to victory.
I am not going against the purpose of FreeRepublic.
You can't defeat Democrats if you alienate your base, and you cannot keep your base if you do things like Bush 41 did when he betrayed tax-hawks on "Read my lips, no new taxes", or what Bush 43 did Monday night, by refusing to give Border Conservatives their closed border. To not have Democrats win, Republican leaders need to hear the message, loud and clear, and adjust to it. FreeRepublic lets them do that, if they read, listen and think.
If they don't, it's not the telling them what they need to do that loses office for Republicans, it's Republican officeholders making bad decisions.
Anyway, it is possible that Mr. Robinson agrees with your assessment of the purpose of his website, and agrees that I am going against the purpose of it. Perhaps you should contact him and ask that I be prohibited from posting here.
I seriously doubt he will take you up on that, and expect he will probably be annoyed with you for having bothered him about what amounts to your anger and disagreement with me. I am a generally respectful and thoughtful poster, who does not get out of hand and rant and rave. I say some unpleasant things sometimes, like any good officer who can foresee the catastrophe that his commander his leading his unit into.
I signed up in 2004. What of it? That's when I discovered the site. State flags? I'm not all that young, and not very technically savvy with the Internet and really have no idea what you are talking about. Are we supposed to put state flags somewhere? Where? I don't know what flag I would put up anyway. I happen to live in Connecticut, for the time being. I've lived in New York, Maryland, Florida, Michigan Texas, California, the Ile de France and Anjou, and lived out at in the middle of the ocearn for longer than I lived in any of those other places except Michigan, so I don't know what flag I'd put up there if I did put one up.
Anyway, it's always a pleasure speaking with you.
If you don't appreciate what I have to say - and clearly you don't - it's probably best not to bother reading it.
I do tend to go on and on, and there's no point getting yourself worked up over some anonymous poster. I'm certainly not going to go away just because you tell me to. That's Mr. Robinson's province. He hasn't asked me to leave. So I'm staying.
That personal attack in lieu of enchanging ideas sure goes a long way towards both leading by example, and validating PD's original criticism at the story state of intellectual exchange on FR these days...
The hypothesis was not inane, but well considered, and not useless, in that it points out the thinking of a block of conservative voters out here. Vicomte13 may well be right. I hope it doesn't work out that way, but...
You're a defeatist "teach the GOP a lesson" poster.
He may be the latter, but that doesn't make him a defeatist, and may make him a realist.
You're going against the purpose of FR, which is to defeat democrats and never give them control of Congress or the White House.
My impression is that, although most all of us agree with that particular goal, the purposes of FR are many, including acting as a source of news and conservative commentary not available on the MSM, furnishing a forum for conservatives to participate in stimulating, civil discussions about current events and other topics, a bulletin board for useful conservative activism, and a community of virtual extended family. In other words, this is not a one-issue forum.
I am NOT surprised you are an '04 sign-on with no state flag.
This is a purely inflammatory gratuitous low blow, of the type which inspired PD started this thread, and you know it!