I can’t speak for JR or really anybody but myself, but there be trolls among us who do more than ordinary disparagement, but engage in vile slander, and these should be the first to go. Disagree with a candidate’s policy, dislike their personality or their voice, wonder openly about their electability, all fair game in civil political discourse. But to insidiously suggest they are systematically and intentionally duping millions of good people, just to make a buck, is defamatory, and in Sarah’s case, against the evidence.
Such unfounded slander has no place in the conservative household, and especially no place on a site that touts itself as the beacon of conservatism on the web. Conservatism IT WAS A BIG MISTAKE THAT HAS COST HER POLITICALLY is grounded first of all in truth, and second of all in respect for the unalienable rights of our brothers and sisters made in the image of God, the foremost of which is the right to life. A close cousin to that right of life is the right protect one’s reputation from the caustic of life-destroying slander, hence the defamation laws. As conservatives, we all have a right to our opinions, but where our right to speak and another’s right to an honest reputation collide, we should observe that boundary and do as the Founders intended, govern ourselves, and our tongues, lest we prove unable to do so, and another come to govern us against our interest and our will.
The bolded text in my previous post was an inadvertent paste from another poster that got dropped in there by my droid. My apologies for any confusion.