Last few days, I have been responding to the mischievous rascals and careless liars on FR who have again bludgeoned members of the Palin family through posted misstatements, slander, libel, and general unruly nastiness toward Sarah Palin on FR.
Thank you for the apology. Many of the accusatory FReepers have vomited on my posts this week in my efforts to counter their flood of recent anti-Palin rants, re-rants, and re-re-rants against the Palins. Then, they’ve refrained from responding once they’ve been challenged with provable facts and certainly with nothing appearing to be conciliatory to me, as you have done.
I chose to take a recent sabbatical from posting on FR but felt the silence was worth breaking to challenge the un-FReeperlike posters who feel that FR now carries no importance to protect and provide truthful and factual information anymore. Perhaps these kiddies are right. Maybe true Constitutionally conservative Judeo-Christian values are no longer at home here on Free Republic. What a future that portends.
FR management again (as it did last July) is throwing the baby out with the bathwater (by punishing loyal long-time FReepers - by deleting entire threads containing the good and the bad), apparently judging that this lazy style of moderation is an acceptable loss to the website.
Finny, your current methodology of selecting FReeper usernames for this or that list is making your lists not useful. In my case, not reliable at all. Neither is a good deal of recent information regarding Sarah Palin posted on FR. This calls many if not all posted articles into question nowadays and I cannot provide the solution.
My eyes were opened in 2010, when a controversial topic heavily discussed here appeared as if the majority held one view, when in point of fact, only a little more than a third did -- but they posted more aggressively and prolifically. The more accurately you see the world around you, I figure, the better you'll be able to function in it.
Look, I am as disgusted with the personal insults and Palin attacks as you are. And for the life of me, I don't know why anyone would ever give Bristol Palin no more nevermind than Chelsea Clinton.
But we are in danger of electing an angry Republican to the White House who has a long and distinguished record of acting decidedly LEFT. The primaries are not a time to attack the Democrats.
FRiend, once upon a time, the primaries were mere formalities deciding who I would vote for in the general -- the Republican, of course.
Since 2008, the primaries have changed in significance for me. Now, they represent whether the Republican candidate is someone I'll vote for or spurn in the general. That is decided in the primary. I have a hunch there are a lot of folks like me -- there were more than I expected in 2012.