[publana]

Agreed. I’ve unavoidably been away for a while and am apalled at the tone of some of these threads. The libs aren’t going to have to rip us apart. We’re doing it to ourselves.

I am supporting Fred, but these horrible anti-Rudy threads turn my stomach. The man is deserving of respect if not our votes.

In the end, I will wholly support whoever wins the brass ring in the primaries (even if, horrors of horrors, it is McCain and I say that with much pain). I’d prefer there not be a trail of swill to be followed here. Also, I fear the vitriolic attacks against each other’s candidates will leave many Freepers so disenchanted and disgusted with the chosen candidate that they will not go to the polls in November 2008.

Can’t we have discourse and debate without dissolving into juvenile and nasty attacks?

[mkjessup]

Agreed. I’ve unavoidably been away for a while and am apalled at the tone of some of these threads. The libs aren’t going to have to rip us apart. We’re doing it to ourselves.

Oh spare me the hand wringing, ok? The only thing going on lately here at FR is that JimRob and the REAL conservatives on this site said 'enough is enough' and the liberal-Rudyloving RINOs were told what time it is, and a large number of them took it upon themselves to either push JimRob to the limit in order to be zotted, or they posted their wah-wah opus and slinked off into the night to their fellow RINOs at WideAflakes.Net.

I am supporting Fred, but these horrible anti-Rudy threads turn my stomach. The man is deserving of respect if not our votes.

You may think that someone who praises a eugenicist promoter of infanticide is deserving of respect, and you may think that someone who thinks that murdering an unborn child isn't as serious as murdering a child already born is deserving of respect, and you might even think that someone whose failure to enforce immigrations laws in his city enabled some of the 9/11 hijackers to operate with impunity right in the heart of Brooklyn is deserving of respect, but guess what?

No real conservative does.

Can’t we have discourse and debate without dissolving into juvenile and nasty attacks?

"Politics ain't beanbag"
- Peter Finley Dunne

"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen"
- President Harry S Truman

Happy to help.

[gonewt]

Can’t we have discourse and debate without dissolving into juvenile and nasty attacks?

Clearly not! I have to double-check half the time that these are conservatives we're debating, and not Sheehan-style liberals.