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To: Wolfstar
It's ironic that the Left has been attacking conservatives for exercising their freedom of speech, while on FR anyone who does not agree wholeheartedly with the prevailing popular point of view here is subjected to swarming nastiness intended precisely to shut them up.

That's patently untrue the way you mean it.

But if you don't agree with the "popular point of view" which just happens to be conservative and positive towards fighting the attacks from the leftists, then you are in the wrong place.

Do you have any problems with the nastiness of the left?

It will always be countered on this website, and it doesn't matter if you like it or not.

553 posted on 01/12/2011 1:19:18 PM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Syncro
That's patently untrue the way you mean it.

Actually, it's quite true, unfortunately.

But if you don't agree with the "popular point of view" which just happens to be conservative...

Your premise is false and I won't debate you on its terms. The popular point of view I was referring to is the near slavish devotion to Sarah Palin here. That is not conservative. It is a cult of personality. What you seem to be saying is that if someone is not a Sarah Palin groupie, then they are not conservative. You'll either browbeat Palin skeptics into accepting her as the be-all-and-end-all of the conservative movement, or you'll do everything possible to shut them up, marginalize them, demonize them.

There is much to like about Sarah Palin, but she is not a plaster saint. She is human. As such, she has her weaknesses as well as her strengths. Also, there are other excellent conservatives in politics. Keeping an open mind more than a year before the first caucuses and primaries is not only smart, it's wise.

560 posted on 01/12/2011 1:38:56 PM PST by Wolfstar ("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
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