Replies

I prefer to support the party that thus far has done or is doing points 1-10 in JR's post #653 than to live in the fantasy world perpetuated by some noisy people here (who seem to crave attention more than they want what is best for our country).

I believe defeating liberalism and socialism are worthy objectives.

As FairOpinion stated earlier in this thread: (paraphrasing) The Republican party is our best hope of moving things *slowly* to the right. (*Slowly* is the operative word, imo; the big government horrors didn't get this way overnight, and like it or not, ranting and tantrums won't disassemble a huge bureaucratic nightmare overnight.)

Distorting facts to serve their purposes (the number of “homeless” caused by Reagan policies), scare tactics ("hurt children"), and downright lies (“I did not have sex with that woman” and “we want to make every vote count”) are the things I associate with the Democratic Party. Anyone doing similar things to push his or her personal agenda, or to claim he or she supports remaining "independent" in a "republic," earns my distain, not my trust.

I haven’t been vocal on FR for long. I have, however, been observing FR for long enough to realize that there are some people whose only objectives seems to be to hijack threads as their ways to get personal attention. In a move similar to how I use my remote control, I usually tune those people out. While “ignore them and they’ll go away” doesn’t work, thank goodness such one-issue or (to use a liberal word: “extremist”) dissenters don’t speak or reflect the majority of this forum.

IOW, Free Republic is working. IMO, there are far, far worse things in this world than being (through direct admission or not) associated with the Republican Party.