“someone’s restaurant ... get up and leave.”
Ah, but this isn’t someone’s restaurant. FReep is a valuable political resource that plays a unique role in the Movement. The good judgment or lack of good judgment with which it’s run is of legitimate concern to all conservatives. We don’t have much, so what we do have needs to be good. Whether FReep is good or not is a very legitimate topic of debate.
You cannot use cheap analogies to the business world (that this is a business, that we are customers) in politics. They don’t work, because the two spheres are radically different.
Rudy-bashing is fine if it’s well-supported, or even just civilized in terms of other FReepers and not extreme in its unfairness to Rudy. What is not fine is the endless stream of sheer hatred toward both Rudy and those who, whether they support him or not, dare to defend him on this site. If something isn’t done to reduce this, FReep will deservedly decline in reputation among thoughtful conservatives.
You are full of BS. Life is very simple. Only human arrogance makes people think otherwise.
These idiots are drama queens. If they are no longer happy at FR, spare the crap, no one cares. Its simple logic.
Don’t make something very easy, like American Politics, more glamorous than it deserves.
Only liberals do that, my tolerance is worn with it.
Philosophers just try to make simple logic more intriguing. I don’t buy it and neither should you.
"FReep" is a verb, or a noun describing the act of FReeping. The abbreviation for Free Republic is "FR".
That said...
The good judgment or lack of good judgment with which it’s run is of legitimate concern to all conservatives. We don’t have much, so what we do have needs to be good.
Bullshit. Having a "legitimate concern" about a privately owned website is moot. If you don't like it, don't donate. But there is no committee to create someone else's idea of "good judgment" or cohesion.
"We don't have much"? Get cracking then. Please send me a link when it's up.
Oh, I don't know about that. I like my restaurant analogy about Giuliani pretty well. I use it on Rudybots who insist that I must--RIGHT NOW, DARN IT!--back Rudy or Hillary becomes President. Goes like this:
Just because I'd rather eat dog crap than cyanide crystals doesn't mean I should walk into my favorite restaurant and demand a plate of dog crap. This is the primaries, baby. I'm choosing something yummy. I'll worry about staving the cyanide off at the next meal.