Thank you for your rational words, darrell.
To accuse me of being paid by Obama or of being an agent of Obama BECAUSE I oppose Romney is an illogical step given my track record of opposition to Romney for years and years, verifiable in the RomneyTruthFile.
But to accuse me, due to non-support of Romney, is also to accuse countless other long-time Freepers, not the least of whom is the founder of the site.
I tend to ignore personal attacks. They roll off my back anymore. However, in the religion forum they enforce the “no personal attacks” rule to keep noise to a minimum.
Since we are at truce, that same rule regarding support or non-support of Romney makes perfect sense. Thank you for an excellent suggestion.
Let me say up front that I apologize to xzins for making the ‘paid poster’ accusation. It was wrong, I frankly didnt even mean it, it was said out of frustration to repeated statements I dont think are true. Its to his credit that he ignored it, we’ve argued but he’s never been out-of-bounds w/ me, so he didnt deserve it.
I too have been called a bunch of names over the years for being on the ‘wrong’ side of an FR argument(*), and invariably they are off-base and wrong. The most ironic one is the accusation that I’m a Romney supporter, as I’ve defended Romney from various false allegations (mormon stuff, his record), and hyperbolic attacks (calling him a socialest etc). Well, I’ll be certainly voting for him in the fall, but he wasnt my pick this time or in 2008, and I understand his weaknesses.
But he’s the GOP pick, like it or not, and there are many like me in the Republican party who are more conservative than Romney but understand that he will at least sign some conservative bills and do some good things, whereas with Obama it will be 100% opposite to what we want. I think continued attacks on Romney do *not* help the conservative cause at this time, but only help re-elect Obama, which in my estimation would be a catastrophic thing to befall the country *and* conservatives.
If that opinion is not welcome on FR, then it wasnt the site I once knew.