Well, your comment above shows me you did not know nor appreciate Allegra at all what ever her beliefs yet it does make my opinion of you very much less than it was--
She put her life on the line serving in Afghanistan and Iraq for all of us. It is people like her who make this country great. Those pissants who anonymously pass judgement on those who actually walk the walk and talk the talk for the USA-- Well, they couldn't even stand in Allegra's shadow. They need to go back under the rocks where they live and breath and defecate.
If we do not have any place on FR for anyone just because they like Mitt Romney then tell me how his election could have possibly been any where near worse than the four more years of Obamanation we are suffering through?
I didn't support Romney nor McCain in the 2012 or 2008 primaries, but when they because the GOP nominee against Obama, I voted for both.
Me thinks it is folks of your apparent ilk who appear to have turned their nose up at Romney, not voted and THAT got Obama his second term.
And that, old chum, is very hard to forgive-- Or forget!
Bendy:
It is seriesly difficlt for me to accept criticism of an FR-poster on a per person basis.
Me, being the chief of all sinners in the world; know whaddimean?
(And what do I do with those Clemson Tigers now?)
Thank you, Bender2. Allegra is one of my favorites.
Bender, I understand you have warm feelings for her. I recognize that she served, and I do not criticize her in that regard and thank her for her service. That, however, does not absolve her of her behavior when it came to how she reacted to those of us respectfully taking issue with the candidates she chose to support (and a certain former President - for whom I do not have warm feelings over at all, and the policies he chose to pursue (or rather NOT pursue) had a substantially negative impact on my life personally. In other words, he did NOT keep us safe).
I’ve dealt with many folks on here from different walks of life who get too emotionally wrapped up in their candidate and when exposed or unraveled, they lose all perspective. There was another lady from CA, whose name I forgot at the moment, who was similarly wrapped up in such disgraced pols, which eventually led to her complete meltdown and expulsion from this website. As with her, whether she served or not was utterly irrelevant.
I think it beneath your dignity to point an accusatory finger at me - a lurker since 1998 and active poster for 15 years - “anonymously passing judgment” or even worse, blaming me for daring to oppose that lying Socialist sack of filth from Massachusetts and “giving us” Zero’s second term. I spent countless hours warning people for years precisely what he was all about, and what his agenda was, only to be proven exactly right.
A thousand apologies I could not serve in uniform since my own health, which has been lackluster for well over half my life, including the entirety of my adulthood, could not permit me to do so. I chose another method of trying in some small way to be useful, to get educated about the political and historical process and to be able to develop a well-honed sense about those seeking power, and to try to advocate for those that are above average and similarly warn against those that are the polar opposite and dangerous.
Also, I don’t play that party games bull$hit. GOP do or die ? That is the textbook definition of insanity. We’ve already seen where that’s gotten us. Republicans have been just as complicit at putting us where we’re at today, and if you think for a millisecond that Willard would’ve changed a gee-damned thing had his run not been anything other than a total farce and fix, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you, pally.
I’ll go you one better, old chum. I consider it a high honor and patriotic duty to have stopped that deceitful fraud, Willard. If by my words and actions here I stopped enough people from electing that bastard, I would be proud to have that emblazoned on my tombstone.
Amen!
Miss you, Allegra. Good wishes for a wonderful New Year.
I have no opinion as to Allegra and have not reviewed this thread but the mere fact that someone served in wartime does not absolve all of that person's sins. The late George McGovern flew a bomber for the Army Air Corps bombing Danzig in WWII. He certainly risked his life. That does not mean that he did not spend the rest of his regrettable life in service to this country's communist enemies. I take it that Allegra cast her 2012 vote in favor of Mitt Romney and therefore in service to abortion, homosexual perversion posing as "marriage," socialized "medicine," gun grabbing and a host of other rank evils unprecedented even in the despicable annals of recent GOP-E POTUS candidacies. Romney is, was and always will be a rank barbarian unfit for civilized companionship much less for POTUS votes no matter WHO his opponent was.
Thank you Bender.
This lying crap being posted about her when she is not here to defend herself is despicable.