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Such lists are vitally useful if one wants to discern the actual prevailing opinion among individual FReepers, and on a few issues, I want to know where I stand and how many I stand with.

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.

Look, I am as disgusted with the personal insults and Palin attacks as you are.

Finny, I have NOT been complaining about the personal insults that have ALWAYS abounded on FR. They actually have a place when countering posters who are repeatedly lying and know it.

Have not been pushing Cruz over Trump or the other way around. Have left that for others...for the many other FR posters, a few of whom are are not necessarily honest people and/or have other non-apparent motives for spreading discord here.

If you choose to read some of my posting history this past week, you should see the main thrust of my posts has been directed to a few unethical jerkwads posing as FReepers who have no reservations in making unprovable accusations and quoting anti-Palin articles and forcefully posting hatefully and personally against Sarah Palin and her family members and without cause and repeating the same slanderous innuendo over and over. They do it because FR management inexplicably allows poor behavior lately more than in years past.

And all the while, these disrupters and destroyers of any integrity that remains of Free Republic go unchallenged by those FReepers who tell me privately that they hope the "bad guys" will just go away after the election or might be zotted maybe perhaps who knows. And we should be nice to them in the meantime.

Whatever has happened to Free Republic consistently visible moderation? Is it still there? Is moderation of FR just wielded occasionally to remove selected comments when whoever makes an abuse complaint for whatever reason? Is the heavy-handed and unpredictable Thor's Hammer ZOT to be Free Republic's legacy and only effective tool of maintaining some degree of legitimacy to this fading website?

(Speaking of the onset of dementia, I too have to keep a watch on myself, making sure the blue liquid foaming soap refill doesn't accidentally go into the cool-mint blue mouthwash bottle.)

Memory still seems keen enough still, though, and I cannot recollect in past years finding FR as hateful a site seemingly with no discernible direction as when an over-abundance of dishonest postings went uncorrected/unchallenged by management this past week regarding the slander published here against any and all things Palin.

Finny, nominate whoever you want to the Republican Party Presidential nomination. Keep your lists of who's naughty and who's nice. In recent months, I've been getting more of my information and forming opinions about things that matter to or interest me from information retrieved elsewhere other than here on FR.