Posted on 04/03/2007 7:24:18 PM PDT by Reaganesque
It is always disappointing to be reminded that there are people in the world who do not like you so much that they are willing to debase themselves and others in order to get their way. We, as conservatives face this from the Left on a day to day basis. But when such action comes from another supposed Conservative, that is truly disappointing.
The posters at DU think nothing of swearing and posting the most filthy, perverted and twisted things about their political rivals. We here at FR are, for the most part, better than that. At least we try to be. Unfortunately, there's always someone who proves that both sides have their ugly side.
I have posted a number of pro-Mitt Romney threads recently as have many others. I discovered this afternoon that several of them have been the victims of childish and down right purile dirty tricks. Now, political dirty tricks are nothing new and nor are they uncommon on either side of the aisle. But some simply cross the line of decency. Such is the case with whomever played their little game of messing with the Keywords on these Pro-Romney threads. Here are four examples:
Romney Tops Republicans in Fundraising
KEYWORDS: ANTICHRIST; CULT; FUNDRAISING; MITTRAPESCHILDREN; ROMNEY; Click to Add Keyword
Why I Think You Should Vote For My Dad
KEYWORDS: 2008; ELECTIONPRESIDENT; ELECTIONS; MITTBEATSHISKIDS; MITTISTHEANTICHRIST; ROMNEY; Click to Add Keyword
Parsing the Polls: Answering the Mormon Question
KEYWORDS: CULT; JOEYSMITHDELUSION; Click to Add Keyword
KEYWORDS: ELECTION; FRED; FREDTHOMPSON; MITTISTHEANTICHRIST; ROMNEY; THOMPSON; VP; Click to Add Keyword
People, campaigning can be a hard and painful thing. You have to have a thick skin to run for office and heaven knows, all candidates take their blows, some more than others. But there is such a thing as decency. And this little prank doesn't just cross that line, it obliterates it.
Disagree with the thread? Fine. Present your arguments. You don't like the candidate? Great. Tell me why and make an attempt at intelligent conversation. That's the way this place is supposed to work. But, resorting to such sophomoric, vulgar and quite frankly bigoted childishness is beneath contempt. If you can't manage a reasonable level of maturity, then there's a whole bunch of like minds over at DU you can have fun with.
I get the feeling that some freepers love to see the picture of Rudy in drag. Some secret thrill they’d rather not mention to others.
As for the deliberate lies and misrepresentations, it’s just what we can expect from haters with no positive agenda for America. A lot of trashtalking and nothing worthwhile at all.
Every now and then this website gets taken over by madmen. This is one of those times. Kind of sad for a place with so much influence in the past. Now it’s a place to avoid.
Good . Bye, don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out. Goodness, how vitriolic and bitter. I saved this comment in my enjoyable reading category.
You call Peach pathetic but use your OWN hompage to attack a fellow Freeper LOL ...HAHAHAHA...just when you think the RudyHaters can’t sink lower. PURE FLPSWEAT!!!!!!!!
And as for your tagline, Christians believe in God, Jews also believe in God, but refuse to recognize God in God's entirety, and Muslims believe in Allah, a manmade construction with some similarities to the Biblical God along with aspects of pagan gods.
Geography challenged too. How crazy is all this.
Rudy was Mayor of New York City.
There are five boroughs comprising NYC.
Manhattan
Bronx
Staten Island
Brooklyn
Queens
Last I visited no one needs a passport to get in or out.
They’re still part of the United States.
I’d like to seeanyone who posts really crappy tuff like that tosed out on their ear.
That the Left will engage in those tactics is the key point.
They will use those pics against Rudy, regardless of why they exist, and in a close election that will cost enough votes. It will cost the White House, not to mention considerable face. The Left will NOT play nice.
That, imho, disqualifies him from the nomination.
He is not electable, by virtue, not of what Freepers or other Republicans do with those images, but by virtue of what the Left will.
The sooner we realize that, and that is without regard to his liberal views, the sooner we can put our weight behind a candidate who has a real shot, and preferably, imho, a more conservative one.
Used to be a person needed a hazmat suit to visit DU.
Now some folks need a hazmat suit to visit FR.
Not the way to go!
Wouldn’t it have been nice if folks gave up hating for Lent.
Guess it was just too long to honor the Lord.
There are plenty of DU-ers and Move-On losers posting here Blackirish....trying to destroy this website...hopefully the Mod squad will wake up and give them the boot.
I called no one gay. As you well know.
However, if the shoe fits, I have no problem with that.
Do you?
I love it when people act like a 2 year old “WAH WAH WAH I want to leave”
Then LEAVE! Don’t whine about it just leave. Nobody’s holding a gun to anyone’s head to make them stay.
No, I'm afraid you're the one missing my point.
Sure the left is going to use those. But how does that justify FReepers doing it for them? I don't expect the left to behave like anything other than the vermin they are.
And are you seriously saying that you're willing to allow the left to disqualify our candidates?
If they're not posting pictures of Rudy, they're going to find something to post about our other candidate(s) regardless of what we do.
MY point, from the beginning, is that we shouldn't be helping them out. Everytime those pictures are posted on FR it's not a recognition that he did something goofy (foolish even for some), but there's an implication that he's gay or transvestite. And that's either ignorance or a willful distortion of the facts.
I don't really give a RAT's clymer if FReepers are supporting Rudy or not. Quite frankly I don't think there's enough of a contengency to make a difference.
The point about the pictures of him in drag, and please, consider this carefully, is that that image will follow him along the campaign trail.
It will not be explained, but even if it is, the idea of America's President, Leader of thr free world, etc. in drag will hardly lend credibility to America as the world's superpower.
In many ways the President represents us all whether we agree with his policies or not.
At a minimum, we want an imposing figure of state, confident in bearing, firm in resolve, a picture, nay, an icon of strength who can, when need be, negotiate from strength with leaders of repressive, brutal, and mysoginistic cultures and societies worldwide.
Need I say what the pictures would do to that image? How that would affect the negotiations? Either Rudy would be forced to be far more forceful in order to establish his bonafides than would normally be necessary--an invitation to unnecessary armed confrontation--or would be perceived as no threat and not taken seriously in instances which were not worth going to war over.
Even if he won the election, (in spite of those pictures) those images would have far reaching connotations for not just the Office of the President, but the nation as a whole--connotations which would doubtless reflect upon our entire culture.
In some small circles a grown man dressing as a woman is seen as "brave", in most the effect on the perception of masculinity is the opposite.
It is seen as something guys might have done back when on Halloween, not as an adult, and not someone who would be President.
LOL!!
Didn’t you know that posting conservative thoughts on a conservative forum makes you a troll? LOL
Didn’t you know that posting conservative thoughts on a conservative forum makes you a troll? LOL
oopps. Double post but I guess it is okay to repeat it.
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