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Rush is LIVID! and rightly so. He is slaming commentators for last nights shameful portrayal of John McCains debate. Rush said that McCain delivered everything that "they" wanted, yet they turn on him. Go Rush. Well Done John!!!

How much can a good, hard-working plumber earn in a year? I have no idea. Maybe some Freepers do. What are some other unglamorous jobs, that don't require a college degree, that pay well?

Frankly I am really disgusted with the horrible analysis by the Fox News "round table" of pundits. 1. They set McCain up before he ever debates by assuming that he is down by some large amount, which isn't true in all of the polls. So therefore he needs a "knockout", which who the heck knows what that is. 2. If these idiots were actually truly following this race and providing good analysis they should have said that while McCain did not score a "knockout" he should have both pleased his base and possibly opened some new attack fronts with the...

After the debate was over, the "conservative" pundits immediately trashed McCain. This was followed by Frank Luntz, who declared that is focus group idiots loved Obama (of course Luntz also said Palin was the knockout debate winner and McCain would surge in the polls after her debate). This is supposed to be the conservative network? I switched over to PBS, and Clarence Page was giving more credit to McCain's performance than the Fox pundits. Same on CNN.

If Obama wins then we have effectively turned control of our national defenses over to Code Pink. Our national treasury over to the Chicago mob. Our justice department to the Rainbow Coalition. Control of our elections to ACORN. Our national ministry of propaganda to HuffingtonPost, DailyKos and MoveOn (which admittedly would be an improvement over CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/NYT/WP/AP, et al). The IRS to Charlie Rangel. Banking/Finance to Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. Housing to Tony Rezco. The new Global Warming Department to Al Gore. The State Department to Clinton, Inc. Education to NOW. The selection of our judges to the ACLU. Homeland...

Just wondering what your opinion is about people who post vanities when their opinions could be posted to existing threads.

what ads should MCcain use , hopefully showing obama / biden in their own words, being who they really are? first, obama's assertion that "he was happy with $4 gas, only that it came quicker than he thought" second, biden: "isreal should get used to a nuclear armed Iran".

Take this one question test to see where you stand on the bailout issue. Be honest and respond in the thread with your answer.

I know FreeRepublic is not for profit. I understand that any changes that are done to it are "unencumbered" by any feasible plan. But you are driving me nuts, John! Think things through from my perspective. I don't have time to play around figuring out all the subtle differences between on Alpha release and the Next. Do the right thing. Beta. Test. Don't break what isn't broken. Never, ever, do anything that breaks a bookmark. I understand that playgrounds are fun, but I, for one, don't have time to coddle you whilst you are playing!

So far, all I've seen in this process is corruption, and more corruption, we have all this campaign finance law yet the election is stolen by "thuggery" long before the election begins, from insane caucuses, to delegates who vote against the peoples will, to back room deals ordering delegates to vote for a competitor as a weapon and on and on it goes. Let's not even mention that the supposed "god" chosen as the candidate could be so chosen before 98% of the Americans have a say in the process, and by liberal states no less. So I pose this...

I May Or May Not Leave Free Republic I'll decide after I finish this bottle of champagne.

THE LIVE CHRISTMAS Thread?

MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)! What a crock. For decades Americans have been sold a bill of goods by the New Age movement. We have been told that we must be vaccinated, drugged, poked and prodded by snake-oil salesmen with PHDs. Now we have a movement in this country to force those of us who manifest perfect health to pay for those of you who have succumbed to the debauchery of the medical profession and their minions in the secular humanist world. It is my view that MRSA is nothing more than another tool being used by Clintonesk type people to...

Just wondering why the "Breaking News" side bar is not really "Breaking News"? Some of it is days even a weak old.

This ridicules interview with Feinstein and Lott is exactly why Democratic talk radio will get no where. People know when representatives are lying and obfuscating issues. Diane Feinstein’s prefab talk to filter everything into a Democratic talking point during this Wallace interview is aggravating, off-point, and arrogant. She thinks the masses do not understand the issues or read the bills. She’s wrong! That’s where arrogance can lead to demise. Diane Feinstein is a perfect example. Here she talks so high and mighty about the law and Dick Cheney. I wonder how she can talk about the law when she has...

I've been a member of FR for a few years now, and it's an AMAZING site overall. I actually get a sizeable chunk of my news- not so much the headlines, but the analysis behind the news, on FR. I am pleased to have JR allow us to post on his site. Having said that, I feel compelled to vent on some of the things that have been annoying me to no end. *** MSM is Dying or Becoming Extinct ***. This is the one thing that drives me up the wall the most. It's bad enough that many of...

I have long thought that Ann Coulter has done more harm than good with certain of her writings and comments. Notice I've written certain, but you must take from those words the inference not all. Yes, certainly some of it has been very funny. Often there's a deep dish of irony served. Other times it takes someone like her cut through the chatter and name names and characterize situations.The comment made at CPAC recently was one of those times where she stepped over the line when lampooning either someone or a situation or political correctness or whatever rationalization her supporters...

Why are our elected officials making such an effort to ignore or destroy our Constitution.The First ammendment has been weakened more and more by McCain/Feingold and political correctness.The Second will be destroyed verry soon here in Illinois and at the Federal by Illinois SB0016 and Federal level HB1022. We as a nation are facing an enemy who will be verry willing to kill every man,woman and child in this country.And yet our officials are more concerned with their own well being than that of the unwashed masses. We cannot depend on Government at any level to aid us in the...

The United States is and for most of its history has been a nation of people who know they have a good thing and basically just want to be left alone to enjoy liberty, prosperity, and the pursuit of happiness. Yes, even today’s American socialists, with their demand for equality of result (except for themselves – their personal fortunes and high status are somehow in their minds exempt from the demands of equal impoverishment they make of others) see themselves as embodying the best of Jefferson, Madison, and Paine. This is, in my mind, the explanation of how we have...

Education The public education situation in this country has become a chronic example of wasteful and ineffective government spending. It is a travesty that we have to relinquish our tax dollars to under-educate and indoctrinate our children. The public school system’s standards are so low that we have high school students who literally cannot read. The majority of the public school students have no idea about world events, government, geography, history, or grammar. On the flip-side, their knowledge of modern pop-culture is amazing.The Republican idea of vouchers lends a solution to the failed school system. This idea has been fought...