FREEPERS!!! WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US??

April 5, 2007 | Self

[quidnunc]

What has happened — and is still happening — is that the wingnuts have gained the ascendency and have driven more and more levelheaded, civil posters off the forum in disgust.

[Reaganesque]

The thread that I had to have pulled. Sigh.

[paulat]

No more posts needed.

Obviously, you haven't seen the posts of the people who will "sit it out," if the nominee doesn't match their litmus tests....

[onyx]

Gee, thanks for the ping to this thread...lol.

For the most part, I have confined my posting to the Dose and ANS threads. I find the candidate threads all too disgusting and repetitious.

[Lancey Howard]

"I don't think so, Tim."

[Gracey]

YOU Said it well. The MSM interviews our candidates and keep asking the “gotcha” questions, over and over again, in different ways. I haven’t heard any of them ask R candidates any positive questions... such as what have they accomplished. Our Republicans fall for it hook, line and sinker.

[Gracey]

YOU Said it well. The MSM interviews our candidates and keep asking the “gotcha” questions, over and over again, in different ways. I haven’t heard any of them ask R candidates any positive questions... such as what have they accomplished. Our Republicans fall for it hook, line and sinker.

[REDWOOD99]

My brother is a knucklehead. I tell him so. We don’t see eye to eye. But he’s MY brother. Nobody else gets to pick on him. I’ll hug him on Easter. I’ll support the Republican in ‘08.

[Howlin]

Leave it to you to cut to the chase............LOL.

[jla]

Precisely... No more posts needed... That is THE number one issue; without that one, nobody else’s “principles” will be worth a damn.

Who else sees the utter irony of this post?

[Howlin]

I’ve seen them; they are idiots and should be ignored.

[Constitution Day]

Thanks for trying with that thread.
All I saw was that JR pulled it. I didn’t know you asked him.

I’d love to stick around and see where this leads, but I have a big day tomorrow with the family... museums & such!

Take care!

[MSF BU]

I think that way as well. Then I remember Gerald Ford had to lose in order for Ronald Reagan to win.

[Howlin]

What is that suppose to mean?

What good is that “one agenda” gonna be when the people in power are the very people who are going to destroy your agenda?

[Petronski]

The irony in that post poked me in the eye.

[potlatch]

------but with a HUGE degree of civility.

Yes, I have stayed off many threads because I have seen more name calling than used to be allowed!

[Billthedrill]

I understand your apprehension in the matter, but please remember that this isn't the FR of 1998. A lot of posters are here only for the purpose of advancing or attacking a particular candidate, not because they're loyal FR posters with opinions but because FR happens to be a place that is influential for a lot of people who are critical to the battle, hence it is a battleground. That, I am afraid, is the price of success.

FR is, in fact, rather more civil than it used to be. This sort of ugliness doesn't stem from people who truly love the place, no matter what their sign-on date says.

[LongElegantLegs]

I could post a thoughtful, well-reasoned, grammatically correct response to this...Or I could post a nasty Keyword. Decisions, decisions...
Seriously though, I agree with you about everything but mass bannings. FreeRepublic is like a core sample of the Republican party and if all we are is a bunch of nasty snark-meisters, well, I think we need to face that and deal with it, not try to ignore it.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

It’s time that Jim starts looking around and suspending or closing some accounts for this type of behavior until it gets under control.

I think that's JimRob's call exclusively, not yours.

Yours is the second post I've seen equating FR with the scumbags in DU. If you find FR to be so repugnant, then don't soil yourself, the back page key serves to remove one from an offending page.

There's a fair degree of heated rhetoric here and I've made a point of not posting on those threads even though I have a very strong interest in the outcome. It keeps me from offending as well as taking offense.

You might find yourself well served to avoid what you find offensive. It'll keep your blood pressure down and your sensibilities from suffering damage.

[martin_fierro]

Here we go again