Thank you also, sir... and I mean it.
I truly do believe that conservatives in this campaign run a deadly risk of biting and devouring each other to the point that we all lose.
I know it's hard for us as conservatives to compromise because we, unlike the liberals, really do believe in absolute truth. But if we don't do something very soon we have a disaster coming down the road — we as conservatives **MUST** find a way to accept half a loaf rather than seeing the whole loaf destroyed.
To DoughtyOne, I agree with your perspective as well. There is a contingent of people here on Free Republic who I think love to yell and scream and enjoy fighting — it's not most of the people and probably is a small minority, but it's a significant group because of their volume level. Rick Santorum was not their first target; other candidates have suffered from that same treatment. Well, there's a time and a place for that, and that time is when we're fighting the Democrats, not each other!
Rational debate has a place. Personal attacks do not; they simply embitter people who we need to be able to work with to win this fall.
I realize there has been fault on all sides. I'm not going to get into “he started it first” or “he said worse things than me.”
What I am going to say is it needs to stop or we're going to get Romney, and then we risk getting Obama re-elected.
Not one of us on Free Republic wants that, except maybe a few paid Democratic operatives or Romneybots who are trying to stir stuff up. I think most regular posters here can be taken at face value, so let's stop doing Mitt Romney's work for him by trashing each other, and focus instead on rational reasons to vote for one candidate or the another.
Mitt Romney has plenty of money. He doesn't need our unpaid volunteer help to destroy his opponents.
Since I live in Missouri, I have a caucus this Saturday; Republicans have rented the second-largest off-post venue in the Fort Leonard Wood area. I will go to a Republican club meeting tonight after a local planning and zoning commission adjourns that I need to cover. I live in a county that's known for bitter and divisive bare-knuckle politics, and I am grateful to say that we're not seeing **ANYTHING** in public meetings or private discussions like what I see in the broader Republican Party. I guess maybe we're doing something right in my county, and it's been a long time since I've been able to say that.
You know, you talk a good game. Then you go back 29 years to post personal details about a woman who hadn’t even met her husband that she had six (or more) children with, and you lost me.
I don’t know what your total game here is, but a neutral peace-keeper isn’t part of it.
That was a disgusting thing to do to one of the candidates wives, and that from a position of neutrality? B. S.
I don’t care what other candidate’s wives did 29 years ago, it’s not fair game. And the idea the Democrats would bring something like this out later this year is hogwash. They would suffer a crushing reaction if they did.