[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

If it can't, or if it becomes a forum completely dominated by the issues of the religious right and the xenophobes, then your decision seems perfectly reasonable to me, and I expect a lot more of the long time well-respected posters to follow your lead.

Exactly right! I mean, this forum could never survive without Lucianne Goldberg and her crew. Or what about CaL and the Keyes bunch? And let's not forget the Buchanan brigades! Oh yes, the loss of "long time well-respected posters" will quickly be the death-knell of Free Republic.

Or not.

Ecclesiastes 1.2: "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."

[Dog Gone]

Oh yes, the loss of "long time well-respected posters" will quickly be the death-knell of Free Republic.

Of course, I never made any implication of the sort, but thanks for providing a textbook example of the strawman argument for newer viewers.

[lonevoice]

Good post! Appreciated your posts today on the Family Feud thread too. Very helpful.