Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents.
One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They never intended God or religion to be written out of public life. They never intended government to be used to deny God's existence or for government to be used to force sexual perversions onto our society or into our children's education curriculum. They never intend for government to disarm the people. They never intended for government to set up sanctuary cities for illegals. They never intended government to “rule” over the people and or to take their earnings or private property or to deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech, free religion, private property, due process, etc. They never intended government to seize the private property of private citizens through draconian asset forfeiture laws or laws allowing government to take private property from lawful owners to give to developers. Or to seize wealth and redistribute it to others. Or to provide government forced health insurance or government forced retirement systems.
All of the above are examples of ever expanding socialism and tyranny brought to us by liberals/liberalism.
FR fights against the liberals/Democrats in all of these areas and always will. Now if liberalism infiltrates into the Republican party and Republicans start promoting all this socialist garbage, do you think that I or FR will suddenly stop fighting against it? Do you think I'm going to bow down and accept abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, global warming, illegal alien lawbreakers, gun control, asset forfeiture, socialism, tyranny, totalitarianism, etc, etc, etc, just so some fancy New York liberal lawyer can become president from the Republican party?
Do you really expect me to do that?
NautiNurse picked this particular fight. And came out the worse for it.
Thank you for posting the number. I would suggest you reread my previous post to you and proceed accordingly. Or sit here an flounder. You’re not engaging me in dialog right now, I’m not going to get upset, and I won’t get into name calling. I suspect that will disappoint, but I can’t please everyone.
Sorry you have such a low opinion of women that you think they need you to fight online battles for them.
“Some of you who lost need to let it go, you’re looking desperate.”
You speak the truth FRiend. Thanks for saying it.
“Perhaps now you can run off NautiNurse. This forum needs you a lot more than it needs her, right?”
NN is her own undoing in this case. Read the thread.
I fully support the two-party system and prefer it continue. However, the system I truly fear is a one-party system, one that cripples the system of checks and balances. While you didn't address the second part of my post, I believe it hit on that issue. If the GOP offers up a candidate that looks more like Ted Kennedy than Ronald Reagan, is there really a two-party system? And what should I think of a candidate (R) who expects me to vote for him but really doesn't agree with much of what I think is important, or what is in the Republican platform? Should I believe they are going to fight for Republican causes, despite the record to the contrary? Or, should I think they will join with liberals the same way they have for a lifetime? I think you can guess my answer.
Under similar logic as you seem to suggest, we've created a monster in California (R) with our Governor. He has joined with democrats in multi-million acre land-grabs, big government programs, huge borrowing initiatives, and horrendous global warming legislation (to name a few). In each case, he was opposed by an almost unanimous minority of hte Republican legislature. He calls this "bipartisanship" or "post-partisanship" or governing from the "middle" as long as he, a Republican, agrees with the democrats. I fear this same phenomena at a national level.
The obvious solution I see is that all Republicans and Conservatives should be fighting like mad to make sure that Rudy does NOT get the nomination and working to support an alternative Republican candidate in the primaries. Instead, I see more posts like yours, trying to justify why Rudy should get people's support if he should somehow be able to win the nomination(R). People have spoken--they won't support him. Trying to bully them into it with "heaps of derision and abuse" shows Zero respect to that person and their right to act and vote on their principles. That's my two cents, anyway.
Quite frankly, that is the kind of off-topic, nonsensical crap that too many of the departed posters engaged in. You can't be bothered to see that Nauti Nurse started this particular spat over hotlinking. Instead, you make some kind of offhand attack on EV for responding to an attack that someone else initiated.
Some things are never over.
Real good western. Hoss Cartwright had the same MO.
Oh, isn’t that special? Nauti Nurse altered her link!
“Some things are never over.”
It won’t do any good to let this eat you up, those 30 or so are gone, and in almost all the cases they chose to go.
So fair and unbiased arent you? Why don’t you ask your naughty friend to stop trying to stir things up here? Her only purpose of posting here today is to disrupt this thread and harass EV. Do you like that? Do you agree with what she’s doing? Read all of her nasty, snide comments and tell me that she needs you to come to her defense. Play fair man or butt out!
You noticed.
“Some things are never over.”
For bitter people who hold grudges—yes.
She just lost all credibility she might have had for calling for the threads to be more civil. If she had any character, she just would have said "you're right" and left it there.
Getting rid of the evidence was bad enough. Replacing it with her attack image was despicable.
Never thought I’d see you calling Nauti Nurse a hypocrite. I’ve enjoyed your posts in the past, and perhaps will in the future, but I’m more than disheatened to see you descend to name calling and jumping on a bandwagon that cheers the demise of people who have served freerepublic and conservatism well, people who would have continued to serve freerepublic well, had it not been for this little witch hunt that some idiots are having such fun with.
Never thought I’d see the day when freerepublic was a discredit to conservatism, either, though. But I’m seeing it now.
I stayed out of the fray (for my own reasons.) But, I will continue to hold the mob and owner to account for the tone that has been allowed to take over on this thread if it permeates the rest of the board.
If that puts me in the crosshairs - go for it!
Read further. She ends up admitting her beef was about content, not hotlinking.
And then when she is caught with a copyrighted picture on her website, she changes the image to her attack graphic on EV.
I take no pleasure in getting after her. But she started a stupid fight with EV and got the worst of it.
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