Welcome to Free Republic. You are so delightful to hear from. And WE are mostly all ornerier than we’re suppose to be, sometimes. HA!
YOU should write up a Vanity for us and post it on FR. It would be a great read for us, and this a perfect political season to hear it!! Please.
Thank you for the welcome, but I've been here since 2006 officially, and was reading long before that. I finally signed up half a decade ago when I wanted to post something. For a long time after that I was still mostly lurking. I've probably written more in the last six months than the previous five years combined, but that's mostly due to the election, and especially because I am unhappy with the Republican candidate selection.
I've really spent **WAY** too much time posting on this board in the last few months and especially the last few weeks. I need to go back to mostly reading.
2,129 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:47:16 PM by RitaOK: “YOU should write up a Vanity for us and post it on FR. It would be a great read for us, and this a perfect political season to hear it!! Please.”
I appreciate the suggestion, but I'm not really sure what good a vanity post would do. The article profiling my work from the September 2011 edition of “Editor & Publisher” magazine which I linked to in a previous post on this thread outlines what I do pretty well.
I guess my reticence boils down to the fact that I don't think I'm very interesting. I do have a certain amount of inside knowledge of Iowa politics, but even there, I am not an expert. The situation facing us in the next few weeks with Republican primaries that could quite literally wreck the party is far more interesting than me personally.
I have some very strong views about what we **DON'T** want as a Republican nominee, and those views are in large measure mainstream positions at Free Republic. When I see people coming on here who seem to be trying to disrupt conservative thought and damage candidates rather than trying to have a serious discussion of who would be the best candidate, I get angry. I sometimes respond angrily, but since other people here usually are quicker to yell at obvious offenders, more often I sit down and try to figure out a way to prove that the people attacking conservatives for no good reason are wrong rather than just yelling at them, “WRONG, WRONG WRONG! YOU'RE TOTALLY WRONG!”
Yelling sometimes is necessary, but using cold hard facts to calmly document and clearly prove one's case usually works better.