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I hope that is true. I would welcome Thompson into the race.

I know it sounds rude to say Rudy should be purged. I mean it more in the sense that posts supporting Rudy should be purged, just as posts that support liberal candidates and ideas have always been purged on this forum. If you are having a discussion comparing Thompson and Romney’s views and ideas and someone comes in and starts shilling for Rudy, then you are drawn away from discussing viable candidate’s views. We wouldn’t let anyone that supported Hillary go into a thread and try to distort one of the candidates views in support of liberal Hillary.

Discussion about Rudy and his views are still important, but in the same sense that discussion of Hillary and Obama’s views are important - to expose their liberalism.

Well many here who support Rudy could not honestly be labeled anything close to liberals. Their support of Rudy is deeply misguided like mine was, but it is by no means subversive. A lot of people are scared, the thought of Hillary or any Dem with both houses of congress in a time of war scares the bejeezus out of a lot of folks. They see someone who has been doing very well in the polls, and is strong on defense so people are attracted to him. The barrage of attacks on them only cements them in there positions. I believe that with reasoned and civilized debate, many “rudybots” will come to the same conclusion that I did, and that is “The emperor has no clothes”. Especially with the entrance of a consensus candidate. I just can’t see what good can come from a lynching at this time. The time for a good lynching was back in 05’ and early 06’, now it is time to at least try and reconcile our differences so that we can find that candidate that will rally together the various “conservative garrisons” that make up the GOP base, as well as inspiring independents to our banner.

Your suggestion of turning FR into a Right Wing version of DU is a sure fire way to kill the forum. Its tolerance of many viewpoints some even crackpot gives it it uniqueness and power. If you cannot deal with Rudy Guiliani here you certainly will not be able to in the large contest.