Nonsense!
I could just as well say you sound as if you've been around your socialist, marxist, trotskyite *friends* too long given your suspicious nature, Mr. Jenkins.
(I'm holding an open hand up to my computer so you may see [now], I'm holding no ice pick with which to plant into the side of your skull.)
Please don't dump your bucket of cynicism in my lap.
We're already off to a poor start as it is; now, you not only risk being labeled, "rude."
But perhaps worse, also coming-off an insufferable boor.
I mean at the rate we're going?
Could correcting each other's grammar & spelling be far off?
No Mr. Jenkins, there'll be no *priggishness* from me.
Your cynicism's your's to deal with and, resolve Mr. Jenkins.
I'm not buy-into any "projecting" from you, today.
Understand?
FYI: I've already tended to my own "baggage," thank you.
"I have to ask, why bother asking questions if you have the answers? Truth be told, if I support certain positions while maintaining an extreme leftist posture, as you put it, that may mean you don't."
HA!!
Now it sounds as if -- apparently -- you took my friend Mudboy Slim's introduction totally wrong, Mr. Jenkins.
You see, I'm over 30 years old; &, surely you know what "they" say about that, huh?
"If you're under 30 and are not a LIberal? You have no heart. If you're over 30 and are a Liberal, you have no brain."
"You asked why I was here. Simple. I don't spend all my time on my side of the fence, so to speak."
Ahhhhh, I see.
The ol', keep your friends close; but, keep your enemies closer shtick, huh??
Well speaking only for myeslf, I don't consider you my "enemy," per se.
Just because I believe I know what makes you *tick*, think you may even be "dangerous" to my pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness insofar as your role as a "Useful Idiot" for the Left goes?
Your threat is not an imminent one; so, I can afford to be...generous?
For now.
"Would that not be a mistake on anyone's part? Having said that, there is a reason why I believe the things I do, and unless I come to different conclusions, I will maintain those reasons, as well as conduct my life based on what I believe."
A *song*, Mr. Jenkins, let me quote you a song I'm fond of which describes what I'm *feeling* coming from you right now...
"You went to a strange land searching
For a truth you felt was wrong
That's when the heartacheS started
Though you're where you want to be?
You're not where you belong"
BTW; can't help noticing you neglected to address my main comment(s) to you concerning the smear of this site -- your host -- at the place you're responsible for?
Neglected to address everything except, those points of your choosing, Mr. Jenkins.
Which incidentally -- or would that be coincidentally -- weren't *my* comments a'tall now, were they?
What they were, were your telling me -- whether I wanted to be a willing participant or not -- "what you're all about," eh?
Listen, my friend.
Enjoy your stay at Free Republic; please.
I believe your politeness, & what I sense active search for [the] truth, might result in your getting the surprise of your life in a very profound way.
Yes I do.
Moreso than let us say, "Democratic Underground"; where, instances of cerebral atrophy??
...are a plentiful, constant & very real risk?