Wonderful post, Guenevere. Your assessment is accurate in my view and comprehensive. A bit more respect for the site owner and moderators is in order around here. They do an awesome job.
Many of us came here with absolutely zero HTML skills and slowly acquired them, so we can post photos and graphics, format text, etc. It is generous of the site owners to allow this much individual blogging on their website.
If posters would give more attention to issues and less to personalities, maybe we could actually become a leader in the conservative movement again.
The fact that Vietnam veteran Jim Robinson is imminently en route to Washington DC to defend the memorial to his RVN brothers and to support currently deployed troops and their mission SHOULD BE an inspiration to FReepers to grow up a bit and dispense with some of the nastier, divisive posting that has been going on recently.
As I stated earlier on the thread, the big problem is EGO. Everyone take a swallow. We are going to need conservative UNITY.
At least we can all agree on 2nd Amendment rights.... right?
You just illustrated how this Forum USED to be. Most posts here reflected, in much the same way, the nature of how you so eloquently stated the situation we are currently faced with.