[saganite]

That’s unfortunate. Not allowing someone to speak is a leftist tactic.

[Diogenesis]

Demanding conservatives BOW to Bishop Romney
is a Romney tactic.

ROMNEY IS NOT THE CANDIDATE.

Say that again.

ROMNEY IS NOT THE CANDIDATE.

[AAABEST]

That’s unfortunate. Not allowing someone to speak is a leftist tactic.

Not always.

During the 2000 election fiasco, a bunch of us from this very forum drowned out Jesse Jackson, to the point where he was forced to be escorted our of his race-pimp rally without having the chance to utter a single word.

It was GREAT.

[muawiyah]

Wow ~ the Mittbots sure ended primary campaign talk in Virginia fast enough, so that means ALL OF THEM ARE MARXISTS.

I think I'll just start referring to "Marxist Mormon Mittbots" ~ sounds quite alliterative.

[John D]

That’s unfortunate. Not allowing someone to speak is a leftist tactic.

Can you think of anybody more leftist than Cut and Run or his band of surrender monkeys?

I didn't think so.

[rockinqsranch]

“.......Not allowing someone to speak is a leftist tactic.”

I was thinking similar thoughts. Seems to me there is a noticeable childishness to both groups, Left, and Paul for their “cause”.

[darrellmaurina]

85 posted on Sun May 13 2012 17:27:19 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by John D: “I was just asking why so many FReepers are afraid of Mormons as a whole. The ones I knew were great conservatives.”

Mitt Romney is to Mormons what the Kennedys are to Roman Catholics.

The LDS needs to do something to clean up its own house before Romney singlehandedly wrecks the pro-family and conservative image they've spent several generations working to create.

8 posted on Sun May 13 2012 14:39:21 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by saganite: “That’s unfortunate. Not allowing someone to speak is a leftist tactic.”

130 posted on Sun May 13 2012 18:34:12 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Republican Wildcat: “This is not civilized conduct - shouting people down so they can’t be heard - identical conduct to the fringe left we’ve seen before.”

Correct.

I'm disturbed by the arguments some are making that shouting people down is an acceptable tactic of political discourse. Advocating rational debate rather than mob tactics is not merely being civil and polite; it is being conservative. We should be as aggressive as we possibly can in debate, but we need to debate wrong arguments, not shout them down.

Conservatives are not liberals. We believe in such things as absolute truth, original intent, logic, etc. While honest liberals share our concepts of truth and are sincerely and honestly wrong, many liberals simply do not believe in the same standards of truth that we do. As conservatives, we are supposed to be debating our opponents and proving them wrong.

If we aren't doing that, either 1) we don't have confidence in our own arguments or 2) we don't have confidence in our ability to defend our arguments.

If 1) is true, we ought to become liberals. If 2) is true, then we ought to shut up and let someone talk who knows what he's talking about.

Ron Paul supporters need to listen and follow 1) or 2).