Consider it my official opus. Norm Lenhart - Done.
Huh? You want to take your ball and go home? No, I don't think so. You call yourself a FReeper, right? Do you know how many of our class were in the streets, and townhalls these many years? You were there too. Now, we are diminishing in numbers.
You know this stuff.
FReeRepublic has changed history man. Among other things, we helped get bjclinton impeached. And you have been apart of that. To quit now tells the democRATs/marxists/progressives/socialists (sorry for the redundancy) reading this, that you quit the premeire conservative web site on the Net? Because you are not winning?
No, you can't take your ball and go home. WE have a game to play...
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While I appreciate your sentiment, it is precisely the fact that so many 0n the right have taken to treating this whole mess as some kind of game/intellectual exercise/ gradeschool cutdown contest, rather than the dire situation it has become that has cemented my decision to make better use of my efforts. To the point, repeating the same correct/true/accurate/proven and historically defined to people that are determined to stomp their feet and bull on with the same stupidity that got us into this mess would be the perfect example of Einstein’s definition of insanity.
To spring off your ‘take the ball and go home’ analogy, look at it this way. We decided to play baseball but the catcher, shortstop and center fielder decided that they arent sure which team they are on and the manager decided to let them sort it out amongst themselves.
Doesn’t sound like a path to victory to me.
And who said I was going home? contrary to groupthink, while FR has historically done much for the conservative cause, it ain’t the first or only rodeo on the circuit.
A group of people here are determined to maintain the status quo and in their own words “vote Republican no matter what”. Well, the facts show that pro abortion candidates were OK. Liars were OK. Statists were OK. Corrupt and compromised in the extreme candidates were OK.
And that merely describes the last presidential candidate. No Really.
Now personally, I don’t consider people who continue to support that with the “no matter what” attitude to be on ‘my team’. And it’s high time that each person here had a sitdown with their conscience and personal beliefs and see if all that squares up.
Lastly, I am a big believer in Alexander Hamilton’s ideas about where people like that should be. And it isn’t on my team.
Before I first came to FR in 98, I wasn’t a Freeper. And once this is all said and done I won’t be. None of which means I am taking my ball and going home. But it does mean I will have lots more time to work with people who believe as I do rather than fighting endlessly with idiots over the most basic concept of what conservativism and principle actually mean.
The mere fact that this thread exists is proof positive we have collectively lost our way. I intend to help find it again. And that cannot be done fighting half the supposed team.