“Do try to stay within the same planetary system of the thread....”
You must mean Mars. Well, as you and Norm are having a two way conversation about what I have been trying to say, I will butt out and leave the two of you to your own devices. There is no point in my interjecting myself between the two of you. I will say this. If Dems get back in again and the two of you either did not vote, or voted 3rd party, then you will both have had a hand in turning our country into a fascist/socialist cesspool.
You know, when this website first started up, it was chock full of Republicans and most here spoke with one purpose in mind, defeating Dems. Mike Huckabee, then admired, and his band played at the Freeper Inaugural Ball. Now there are hardly any left here. The Party is now split in two, others want to dump it and go 3rd party, and thus we will continue to lose elections in the future, as divided we cannot stand. That and the demographics in the U.S. have changed greatly.
I can see how Empires fall; they are eaten alive from within. In 3 years we will see who was right here, me or you and Norm. This subject will be revisited then, if any of us is still around. For now, I bid you goodnight.
I make that observation by way of the fact that you remain unresponsive to those topics. You prefer, instead, to question who I intend to vote for in 2016 -- despite the fact there are no candidates selected to vote for!!
You got nothin'. I do appreciate your candor.
To this very important admission on your part:You know, when this website first started up, it was chock full of Republicans and most here spoke with one purpose in mind, defeating Dems. Mike Huckabee, then admired, and his band played at the Freeper Inaugural Ball. Now there are hardly any left here.
This lament is your clearest admission that you are an establishment Republican, and not a Conservative. You are absolutely correct, there used to be many establishment Republicans here. Hell, I was one. Then we got wise. See, this is a CONSERVATIVE forum, not a Republican one. To refer to the mission statement: "Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!"
So as you establishment Republicans continued to drift to the left, you lost us. To paraphrase Reagan: We didn't leave the Republican party, they left us.
Oh, and as an aside: I remember the Freeper Inaugural Ball. I was there. In fact, I was responsible for authoring and executing the centerpiece computer presentation that kicked it off. Perhaps you remember that presentation. Huckabee and Barr both congratulated me on my work.
At any rate, thank you for your exceedingly clear admission to your affiliation with establishment Republicans, no matter how liberal they become.