Posted on 07/02/2013 9:00:47 PM PDT by ReformationFan
You're right. One can't judge by the articles posted at F.R.
Members here are far more conservative than the rest of the country, even among those people who classify themselves as "conservative". The articles posted here tend to reflect that.
I believe that a lot of folks, if not most, consider F.R. members to be extremest. I readily admit to that moniker and am proud of it.
Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice", those may not be the exact words but I agree with the philosophy 100%.
For instance, I don't ever remember reading at F.R. about voter fraud among republicans, it's always democrats. Surely some republican, somewhere, has committed voter fraud.
Another sexually deviant homosexual.
I investigated a sex offender a few years ago. We were given a tip by his ex-wife. Even though he had been married to a woman (and even had a daughter), when we checked his computer we found 3,000 pictures of naked little boys. We found NO pictures of naked women and NO pictures of naked little girls. I wanted to ask him if he considered himself homosexual, but he requested a lawyer. He had convictions for molesting little boys.
Personally, I consider him, regardless of past, to be a homosexual pedophile.
“For instance, I don’t ever remember reading at F.R. about voter fraud among republicans, it’s always democrats. Surely some republican, somewhere, has committed voter fraud.”
Yeah, basically FR is an echo chamber, just like any partisan forum. If you don’t get out and peek your head around a bit, it’s easy to get a misleading impression on some things.
There certainly is Republican vote fraud that goes on, but I think, because Republicans have power more in small towns and rural areas, rather than big cities, the scale of the fraud is much smaller. Some good old boys stuffing ballot boxes in Podunk, Arkansas to get their cousin a seat on the town council is going to slip right under the radar most of the time.
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