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“FR fights against the liberals/Democrats in all of these areas and always will.”

After lurking for many years, this is my first post.

FR does NOT fight against the liberals/Democrats. Any outsider that follows FR can see that quite clearly. FR is a mutual admiration society that specifically denies any serious debate on the issues of abortion, feminism, non-Judaeo/Christian religious beliefs, immigration, homosexuality or health care.

There are many extremely articulate conservative voices on Free Republic. But rather than allow those voices to debate and spread conservative ideology, they are limited on this forum to backslapping reaffirmation – a preaching to the choir. This IS NOT fighting liberals/Democrats; it is ignoring them (or worse, running away in fear of them).

As popular as FR is, it represents a small percentage of Republicans. Rather than being a forum where conservative ideas are debated with those who are unclear, uninformed or unconvinced of their value – indeed to actually influence and promote conservative thought – this forum has degenerated into a “closed” society, afraid to debate liberal ideology.

If you don’t want the Republican Party to embrace Giuliani’s “socialism” then you had better be willing to engage in honest debate or conservatism will continue its slow migration to the fringe area of American political philosophy.