Vanity Post on Vanity Posts, Duplicate Posts, Trash Posts, Commie Propaganda, etc., Vol V, No. 1

Free Republic | Jan 25, 2002 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

Way too many vanity threads lately. And way too much trash being posted. Please try to stay on topic (politics). Also, please do a search on a significant word from the title of your article before posting. This will reduce the number of duplicates. And, along these same lines, please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles. This will also help to reduce the number of duplicates.

And, whatever else you do, please DO NOT post from DEMOCRATS UNDERGROUND (or any other such trashy un-American socialist hangout). Free Republic was intended to be a socialist free zone. We've gone to a heck of a lot of trouble to make it that way. Why in the world would you think we would be interested in having their trash posted here?

And QUIT trashing each other. You know who you are. Knock it off! Way too many flamewars and feuds going on. And, while I'm thinking about it, QUIT trashing our conservative candidates. If you want to criticize someone's position on some policy, have at it. But do not trash or smear the man. That would include Browne, Buchanan, Bush, Keyes, et al, or whomever else may be your favorite trashee (examples listed in alphabetical sequence). The idea is to get more conservatives elected, not to trash the ones you don't like. If you want to trash someone, make it a Democrat. Thank you.

And QUIT dredging up old communist propaganda to smear our conservatives. Sheesh! Whatever else you may think about our guys, they did not hijack airliners full of people and crash them into buildings. No, my friends, not even the dreaded CIA. Anyone who would believe (or even suspect) that crap is no FReeper. I've been pulling this crap whenever I see it and several people have been banned for continuing to post it. I do not want it on Free Republic. Any current FR poster who believes this leftist propaganda, please logoff immediately, send me your resignation via email, and I will delete your account.

Thanks,

Jim

[FreeReign]

I posted a table of data that proved that the government ballooned far faster than inflation under a Republican Congress as well as Bush's first budget.

Where did you do that?

[cincinnati_Steve]

There sure has been a ton of "worst of" threads today, like worst meal, worst movie, worst drink.

I haven't been around very long, but in the time I've been here, I've spent quite a bit of online time FReeping. I think most of "us" view FR as a community, rather than a on trick pony. We enjoy the interaction with people who share similar interests and concerns, whether it be politics, religion, or life in general.

It's not my server space, of course, but those threads you speak of are actually quite popular, and perhaps provide a respite from the political threads. I've certainly participated in them, when they were of interest.

I even liked a thread from Don Joe, who asked FReepers to pray for his cat. Not political, but stirring in that he thought highly enough to share with fellow FReepers. By the way, Don Joe, I hope Jessie is still eating well and feeling better.

Focusing on conservatism is essential, and as Martha would say, "A good thing," but a diversion is not always bad.

Thanks.

[scholar]

Hi Jim Thanks! I just had my first attempt at posting after being a member for quite awhile. Alamo Girl has been giving me a lot of support. There is a lot of ridicule toward new FReepers who are not familiar with the procedures and protocols.

If this is to be a forum for conservative thinkers, I would think that members could be a lot less critical of those who are trying to participate.

[WRhine]

The tinfoil hat crowd has posted EVERY vile, spurious, disgusting, hairbrained thing , that they could lay their hands on, to besmirch President Bush.

Pardon me, but I don't think you have to be a tinfoil hat conservative to note that even after 9/11 our borders remain a sieve for illegal immigration; that Bush plans to reward such illegal immigration with Amnesty; that Bush is advocating welfare for non-citizens, that our immigration laws continue to go unenforced; that we have the Mexican president injecting himself into OUR policy making decisions; that Bush capitulated to Ted Kennedy on the so-called education bill and got next to nothing out of it. I hardly think bringing out the truth on this and other questionable actions of Bush is "vile" and "disgusting"...among your litany of other terms.

[Joe 6-pack]

Read, acknowledged, and bumped. You know Jim, all of this, "civility," stuff may just start to rub off on folks around here!

[parsifal]

"I even liked a thread from Don Joe, who asked FReepers to pray for his cat." ---Amen! Maybe we should have been praying for Buddy and Socks all these years, too. FWIW, I read last nite that Jesse was better. parsy.

[headsonpikes]

"So am I still a 'conservative'?"

Nope, you sound more like a Canadian. lol ;^)

[Cold Heat]

That is a talking point for the liberals.

LOL! I give. Go on about your business. Keep on trashing our conservative elected leaders during a election cycle. Real smart political thinking.

[eskimo]

With so many liberals today masquerading as conservatives in the GOP I don't see how not taking these individuals to task for their leftward leaning ideology does anything other than provide these liberals with political cover. Anyone astutely following the political scene for a number of years has undoubtedly observed the GOP's drift towards socialism. Being a Republican in these times can mean almost anything.

Well said.

Someone explained to me once how the big corporate money mongers grabbed much of the GOP leadership in order to control any opposition to establishing global profit opportunities at any expense including American sovereignty and our Constitution. Since moral/social issues are of no concern to rabid profiteers, their choice for willing dupes to help give them political viability was those who deviated from traditional conservative ideals such as, those who wanted the right to kill their babies or tolerate human deviancy, and all assorted socialist beggars and bandits.

I'm beginning to think that guy was correct.

[sweetliberty]

"I would suggest that, in keeping with the forum's original intent, one seek notice by the intelligence of his remarks, the depth of his research, or the keenness of his wit. Those virtues contribute much more to the advancement of conservatism than idle jabber.

Quote of the day, Iron Jack! :-)

My thoughts exactly. I second it.

[Sabertooth]

Dozens and dozens of anti Bush threads about his purported love of illegal aliens from Mexico.

I've just started, would you like me to go on.

Do you feel that Bush's immigration policies and the numerous trial balloons being floated by the White House which seem to indicate an inclination to amnesty and Surrender on illegals is beyond the pale of conversation?

I'm for conservative candidates, and I voted for President Bush and his father.

But I'm also for conservative principles, and have voted for California's Proposition #187. Republicans lke Dubya, Jack Kemp, and Bill Bennett were in opposition. When conservative candidates incline against conservative principles, what should be the response of Freepers?

[FreeReign]

Post # 272. How could you have missed that?

Bush's first budget was for fiscal year 2002? Your table only goes up to fiscal year 2000. Do you get it?

[Cold Heat]

I did not like it either Saber. That was pre-911 and the political reality was not to round them up and deport but to try to mitigate the situation. Those ideas have thankfully been shelved. But my complaints were made to my reps. and the white house. I did not air them much on FR unless asked directly or in defending my patriotism after being called a disrupter, Bushie, Socialist or some such thing.

[rdb3]

Exactly. If we are not eating our own, we take our ball and go home if we don't get our way. A fatalistic bunch indeed.