The Free Republic Koan

4/14/12 | Self

[Yaelle]

Saying a prayer for your healing.

[stuartcr]

Good thing it wasn’t skim milk.

[stuartcr]

Or one of them boost themselves out with the others’ help, then go get a rope?

[Tainan]

LOL...a RomneyZot to calm the monkey mind.

[onyx]

I agree.

It took a great deal of honesty to make this declaration, especially while running a fund raiser.

Shows me he is honest about his position even though it will make Free Republic smaller- for a while.

Conservatives need to let go of the GOP. One good offering every 100 years or so should be a strong indication that they are not conservative by choice but rather by convenience.

Praise God! You "get it!"! God bless both of you.

Our Founder and Leader is truly a man of integrity and honesty. He didn't wait until our 2nd Quarter FReepathon was completed to post his reminders to the membership about Free Republic's positions regarding Romney and the GOP-E. Our Jim is always up front and forthright.

We will meet our financial goals and needs; it just might take a little longer. FReepers are the absolute best. FReepers always come through for Jim and their (our) forum, Free Republic.

Some have left and some still might leave, but after hurt feelings are soothed, and a cooling down period has taken place, --- and after reflection, many will return with better appreciation of conservative principles and ideals.

Life long FRiends are made here, each and every day. FReeper events across the country have allowed many of us to meet one another over the years and that's not easily thrown away.

You're a very astute new member! Free Republic is not an arm of the GOP. You're right! We are Conservatives, not necessarily Republicans! I think that's the divide and the causation of hurt feelings and confusion. I think, hope and pray, all will settle in time.

Thanks very much, KSanders!

[onyx]

Praise God, it's not your heart.
You have my prayers for a successfully surgery and I hope you get to the hospital pronto!

[martin_fierro]

[muawiyah]

Buckley was, on occasion, in extreme error.

The answer ~ the CORRECT ANSWER ~ is for the less Conservative candidates to drop out of the race.

Their failure to do so should be held against them in future political endeavors.

We should also punish those who supported less Conservative candidates ~ brutally so ~

[COUNTrecount]

That’s just what I was thinking.

[DugwayDuke]

“Voting for the lesser of two evils means you’re still voting for evil. ... I’m voting for Newt. Piss on these lesser of two evils, I’m choosing a good man.”

But you are still voting for the ‘lesser of two evils’ aren’t you? There is no such thing as a perfect man or perfect candidate and all candidates contain at least some evil. Any vote must therefore be a vote for the ‘lesser of two evils’. Why do you even vote?

[COBOL2Java]

William F. Buckley had a solution to this koan: vote for the most conservative candidate who has a real chance of winning.

That's missing the koan completely. It's like telling someone you're the most humble person in the room. A conservative does not sacrifice their principles. Compromising with evil because it increases your chances of winning automatically disqualifies your choice as conservative.

[muawiyah]

Picky, picky!!!

[TomGuy]

So here's another koan: after going though that experience, who did the frog vote for?

The answer would have been obvious, if the container had been a mug instead of a cup.

Had the container been a mug, the frog would have voted conservative, because everyone knows a conservative is a former liberal who had been ... wait for ... wait for it ... gird your loins ... you know what's coming ... mugged.

[muawiyah]

If Frog #1 were the most Conservative, and Frog #2 the least, then having Frog #1 sacrifice himself did not help out the cause of Conservatism!

It would have been a better investment on Frog#1's part to attempt to drown Frog #2 ~ then use his dead bloated body as a staging ground for launching himself into the Big Time!

Frog #2s "Conservatism" will never improve if he wins the battle of the teacup so easily with his old beliefs intact!

[COBOL2Java]

It would have been a better investment on Frog#1's part to attempt to drown Frog #2 ~ then use his dead bloated body as a staging ground for launching himself into the Big Time!

I see. So murder is OK as long as it advances conservatism?

[muawiyah]

They fell into the cup because Frog #2 was messing around playing footsie with the Leftwingtard toads!

Nothing wrong with capital punishment ~ providing it's legal and all, and I'm sure the Frog Book of Jurisprudence is sufficient to provide a ruling that drowning Frog #2 was well within the framework of the Frog Dynasty Founding Fathers!

[Jumper]

There is not independent party candidate that is viable; the DNC and GOP appoint their representative for the National Election. We need to get behind the local level politics and work to change who trickles upward Nationally. At this point in time, the GOP has given us another McCain type candidate who does not garner passionate support from true conservatives, so now we settel for relection.... As distasteful as it may be, at least we have a better (read better chance) chance of keeping our Country resembling something we recognize with the person banned from support on FR than with re-electing the incumbent. After 13 or so years at FR, I never thought I would see the day that zotting would define conservatives, or pragmatic Tea Party folks who given two choices for president would choose the GOP candidate. We really need to quit whinning and start at grass roots level like the guy we hate here (Romeny)who started 20-years ago building for this election. Obama will destroy any hopes we at FR have for sure.

[humblegunner]

get a blog and say what you want

Just don't be pimping the damned thing here.

[Squantos]

http://www.sugardyne.com/?noredirect

Used this back alley voodoo variant as our medic cobbled up for me when I had a deep puncture wound that was slow to heal..... He said it was based on the old Roman medicos use of honey an grease.

I have used it many times since for cuts or scrapes that got infected.

Iodine an table sugar ....

[abclily]

Is FR’s message, “Don’t vote for the Republican nominee?”