Vanity Post on Vanity Posts, Duplicate Posts, Trash Posts, Commie Propaganda, etc., Vol V, No. 1

Free Republic | Jan 25, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Way too many vanity threads lately. And way too much trash being posted. Please try to stay on topic (politics). Also, please do a search on a significant word from the title of your article before posting. This will reduce the number of duplicates. And, along these same lines, please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles. This will also help to reduce the number of duplicates.

And, whatever else you do, please DO NOT post from DEMOCRATS UNDERGROUND (or any other such trashy un-American socialist hangout). Free Republic was intended to be a socialist free zone. We've gone to a heck of a lot of trouble to make it that way. Why in the world would you think we would be interested in having their trash posted here?

And QUIT trashing each other. You know who you are. Knock it off! Way too many flamewars and feuds going on. And, while I'm thinking about it, QUIT trashing our conservative candidates. If you want to criticize someone's position on some policy, have at it. But do not trash or smear the man. That would include Browne, Buchanan, Bush, Keyes, et al, or whomever else may be your favorite trashee (examples listed in alphabetical sequence). The idea is to get more conservatives elected, not to trash the ones you don't like. If you want to trash someone, make it a Democrat. Thank you.

And QUIT dredging up old communist propaganda to smear our conservatives. Sheesh! Whatever else you may think about our guys, they did not hijack airliners full of people and crash them into buildings. No, my friends, not even the dreaded CIA. Anyone who would believe (or even suspect) that crap is no FReeper. I've been pulling this crap whenever I see it and several people have been banned for continuing to post it. I do not want it on Free Republic. Any current FR poster who believes this leftist propaganda, please logoff immediately, send me your resignation via email, and I will delete your account.

Thanks,

Jim

[FreeReign]

I presented the official facts. We do have a budget in place and it is public record.

I do not know how to put this nicely, in the spirit of non-bashing--but are you hitting the booze a little early? I still DK what you are talking about. Anyone else? Anyone? Anyone? Can you tell me where this FReeper is coming from?

Your personal attack speaks alot about you and nothing about me. It's ironic that you would do it on a thread that was started by the owner of this forum who specifically does not want such personal attacks.

[rdb3]

This site is advertised as a conservative political forum. . .

Indeed it is. But it makes you wonder why some posters come here, doesn't it? No flames. I think you know what I mean. Whenever I hear one of them trash conservatives, I am so tempted to ask them, "Since this is a conservative forum, what are you doing here since you are not a conservative?"

But I always digress.

[WRhine]

Keep on trashing our conservative elected leaders during a election cycle.

I believe you mean "Republican elected leaders".

[sweetliberty]

"If I were a lib/dem, it would appear to me that this is the best way to participate with FR and not be banned or reprimanded. After all, it simply appears to be simple dissenting discourse. However, I'm not convinced that it isn't a concerted attempt to divide and conquer."

I think there is no question about that. I have seen some of the discussion at the DU. They are obsessed with this site. While we have the occasional regular thread about them, I have yet to visit the DU without seeing at least one and usualy more than one thread with FReeper in the title, and even when their threads don't use FR in the title there seldom appears to be a thread over there on which this site and us don't come up frequently. In fact, I'm quite sure if they get wind of this thread we'll probably be seeing a new flurry of "activity" from lefty land.

[Sabertooth]

What ever happened with prop #187? Nothing?

Basically. Here's my take...

The cowardice and betrayal of certain East of the Mississippi Republicans (especially Kemp and Bennett) late in the '94 campaign provided the fulcrum the Dems and the media needed to make the anti-illegal = anti-immigrant = racist Republicans equation stick... but barely.

All racial demographics, Black, White, and Asian, voted for #187 by the expected 2 to 1 margins. Latinos had favored #187 by roughly a 55 to 45 margin until about 10 days before the election, when the propaganda juggernaut was unleashed. This was just enough to cause Latino support to dip slightly below 50%.

And that, my friend, is the cornerstone of the ongoing media myth that a tough stance on illegal immigration is a loser at the ballot box. That's an indisputable lie. Poll numbers continue show that American opinion on the matter is about the same now as it was in '94. The problem is cowardly Republican candidates unwilling to press the advantage, thereby allowing themselves to be smeared as racist.

That cowardice has marred statewide Republican Campaigns in '98 and 2000, and served to get us Gray Davis and a Democrat lock on the state legislature... and that kept #187 from getting out of California to consideration by the Supreme Court.

[Howlin]

I believe you mean "Republican elected leaders".

I believe that's one of the biggest problems we have around here -- those of you who keep telling the rest of us we're not conservatives.

[rdb3]

Ok, How about the 100 of more threads explaining the Bush conpiracy involving Osama B.

Hmmm. . . I wonder who of what ilk just loves to post things like this. Any ideas?

[seeker41]

Books are excluded of course. I love the book threads, its the drinks etc. that I object too.

[veronica]

When conservative candidates incline against conservative principles, what should be the response of Freepers?

I would say post a legitimate article from a credible CONSERVATIVE site to that effect. As I did in regards to Buchanan. It is a FACT that he was in league with a Marxist, Lenora Fulani. It is also a fact that by running he took votes away from President Bush, a mere 8 years after Perot demolished Bush 41's chances of reelection.

Could have led to President Gore, a terrifying thought.

[Helix]

I could be wrong, but in my definition old communist propaganda = anything by antiwar.com, or former AG Ramsey Clark.

[Sabertooth]

I did not air them much on FR unless asked directly or in defending my patriotism after being called a disrupter, Bushie, Socialist or some such thing.

Fair enough, but I have aired my concerns in the open forum. In fact, I've posted some of the more critical threads on Bush's immigration policies, and several of them have reached 400 or 500 posts.

Since Free Republic is a barometer of the mood of the Republican electorate, and we know it's lurked on by many in power or their staffs, aren't we doing a service to the conservative cause be being open about these serious concerns?

If the bally-hooed "Latino outreach" is seen as ethnic pandering (and I see it that way), and such pandering threatens to cost Republican votes in upcoming elections (as it does mine), whether through third-party defections or poor turnout, don't we want that known?

[veronica]

Bump.

[Temple Owl]

That's a great idea. I would certainly appreciate it.

[rdb3]

We are constantly bombarded with every liberal fanatic assault on our lives and our war efforts - even by Fox.

Well, the Fox News Channel promotes itself as "Fair and Balanced." Therefore, it cannot be just conservative points of view. I believe it does a fair job of representing both sides, yet other talking-heads dub Fox News as "conservative." A bit disingenuous, doncha think?