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Anti-freeper sites still exist? That’s news to me. Simply put, I don’t have the time to spend doing that crap, even if I wanted to (and I don’t).

Heck, I have no idea who I’m supporting for President yet either. But I can tell you that the nominee will be Giuliani, unless Thompson gets into the race, and then I’d say he stands a halfway-decent shot (25-30%). The odds would still be against him winning the election (whereas they will favor Giuliani), but that’s the way the country is right now.

And so, because I really don’t like any of the other candidates (except Huckabee), my support will likely go to one of those two. Sure, neither is perfect, but this site right now is trying to overemphasize Giuliani’s negatives while overemphasizing Thompson’s positives.

This gets me back to my main point, which you ducked with a personal attack because you have no answer. Whether in 1999, 2001 or right now, the same sets of circumstances coincided and bannings thereafter occurred in the manner I listed in my earlier post. And when the likely occurrence of Giuliani as Republican nominee (and likely President) occurs a year or two from now, the same reverse situation that occurred in 2001 will happen then. “The more things change, the more they become the same.”

The real net negative is that once again this site has lost a certain cadre of posters who make it halfway interesting. Some will reappear, but others will be gone forever. And also the level of discussion will go downhill once again, as it did back in 1999.

Food for thought.

Maximus ask much the same thing earlier...my response.

IMO...Apparently the owner didn’t think that Bush was conservative “enough”. (Miers,borders, CFR, spending seem to confirm that btw) But I think most would have put Bush in the moderate/conservative area with his “passionate conservatism”.

Giuliani on the other hand is no where close to being a moderate, he is liberal on a littany of areas. I honestly believe Giuliani will not win the nomination and it won’t even be close. But if he did win my impression (just an opinion) is that the owner will not join with Giuliani and liberalism. My hope is that the GOP comes to there senses and gets off the bandwagon that takes us over a cliff to being a plus size Democrat Party. I think that 3rd Parties could gain more attention if this happens but I think ultimately this site will include primarily Republicans and that is the large foundation of the conservative movement. Having said that, Giuliani being head of the Party for 4 years would obviously see many, as I would see myself, as part of the loyal opposition. Whether I stay in the Party or leave, I’ll still attend local GOP meetings to work for conservatism.