Posted on 04/24/2007 10:22:39 AM PDT by Al Simmons
About me:
Lurker - since 1998
Member - since 1999
In self-imposed exile - since April 2007
The tone of the debate and the attacks on long-time fellow Freepers for the cardinal sin of daring to support Rudy Giuliani in early 2007 around here have really saddened me. Instead of fighting the enemy FR is now imposing an 'ideological purity' test on FR members. The well-oiled train has gone off the rails and Mr. Robinson risks becoming the next Joe Farah - a fellow who started a great website for conservative news and opinions, but who gradually drifted off to la-la land, losing all credibility - and readership - in the process.
He has set himself squarely in the Internet media spotlight, doused himself with gasoline, and and lighted himself on fire - a fact that has not escaped the attention of the left-wing lunatics at Daily Kos. Their reporting on what has been going on at FR is perhaps the first factually true account published on their site.
Jim, if that quote of yours about setting up an organization to 'Swiftboat Rudy' is accurate as quoted in their article, the only thing I have to say to you is that you ought to be ashamed of yourself, as you have now become the back-stabber of the conservative cause.
If you wish to marginalize this site by turning it into a narrow "several-issue" forum, that is your right. Just as it is my right to choose to not participate here any longer.
But you will be disappointed if you think that the crude, illiterate "goon squad" you have allowed free rein around here (dmw, narses, dirtboy, extremely extreme extremist, ReaganMan and several others - if I have slighted anyone, please email me if you want onto this list) will elevate the level of intellectual debate.
The result has been predictably in the other direction. That is what happens when you hire a bunch of brown shirts to enforce your own brand of political correctness.
Well, guess what? Politics is 99% BS and one can quite nicely live one's life without the need to bloviate about it. I know how I am going to vote. I could care less about anyone else. Life is too short to waste my time around here when I am clearly one of those made to feel like they are not welcome.
So, go ahead Jim -
MAKE MY DAY. BAN ME. I DARE YOU.
Cleanup on aisle 438.
Those banned weren't interested in debate. That's why they were banned. There are still plenty of Rudy supporters left, only the trollish ones went.
You mean like saying someone supports Giuliani when he doesn’t. Quit being an idiot.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I’m sure we’ll all mourn the fact that you no longer contribute...
Lincoln said that congresscritters like Reid should be hanged or exiled. Send his butt to Syria.
Just send him Lincoln’s quote on how congresscritters who damaged the war effort should be arrested and then exiled or hanged.
No reason for him not to .... and run on 2 lines. It would rather nicely outflank the Greens.
I repeat my suggestion for W: i.e., that he get a model made of the Milankovitch Cycle, and do a series of 'Fireside Chats' about global warming. The children are being terrified by bogus science in the schrools, and others by media malarkey. If W could, in his waning days, just spell out the position based on good science, it might just hurt Gore enough. Considering that Milankovitch figured this out in 1875, I think it appropriate to use what has become common astronomical knowledge to shed light on the climate cycles.
Bush really ought to consider a heavy parting shot on Iraq, as well. Hunter's call-out of Harry Reid has to be followed up ... and extended. The Democrats are behaving in a particularly despicable way right now, and if it is not called to the public's immediate attention by the Republicans, it will not be by anyone else, like the MSM. Reid has done the worst thing an American has done since Joe Kennedy recommended making a deal with Hitler.
NonLinear cracks one crusty eye open, then works his parched lips...the words just barely audible, “Jeez Al, it must really suck to be you.”
When someone tells me I’m practically a traitor because I don’t see the wisdom of running a northeastern lib against a northeastern lib, that’s not ideology. The people who got zotted deserved it.
Yep.
This makes a body count of 27 so far in the Saturday Night Massacre II and related incidents. Here's a < href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821435/replies?c=8343">list. Al Williams on that list should read Al Simmons.
Smells cleaner in here already.
Ah. you have defeated me with your great intellect.
I feel your pain, Al.
I had the audacity to support Tom McClintock over Rinold Schwarzedavis.
Of course I didn't get all Tom Daschle-y on everybody. I stood there and took it like a man.
I loved it when Reid said he wasn't going to get into a fight with a guy with a 9% approval rating...and I'm thinking "Harry, the American soldier does NOT have a nine percent approval rating. You are about to lose your butt!"
What a snappy comeback! You are the idiot that was accusing me of supporting Rudy when I said I don’t support anyone. Course that doesn’t fit your knee jerk attack.
Pray for W and Our Troops
What's this?
This is a conservative website/forum.
Rudy isn't a conservative.
Sorry to see ya go, but really dude....
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