First of all, I have been popping in only minimally today, so I have NO idea who started THIS latest round, or WHERE it started up again...nor do I have the desire to backtrack and SEE who started it. I THOUGHT we were finished with this stuff (and, please, NOBODY start with the “he said/she said”...it’s moot now).
So...since I was pinged, I’ll respond.
Ohio, I don’t always agree in toto with folks out here; anyone who’s ever pinged me or conversed with me over the time I’ve been blogging here (since 2006) knows that. But civility (from ALL sides) is a good thing to maintain. I do try to maintain it myself (not always successfully, either).
That being said - people are entitled to their opinions. Right or wrong, what they believe is what they believe, so to the best of my thinking, we all should TRY to express our opinions in the way that will convince folks of the “rightness” of our way of thinking - if indeed we are “right” - or until we ourselves are proven wrong, in which case we stand up and say “Ok. My bad.” and move on. Correct?
Socratic method of dialogue - logic, candor, and more importantly, good will. And isn’t this the season for “Peace on Earth, Good Will towards men...”?
We can’t ever have the Peace on Earth part; but we CAN have “Peace on Free Republic”...
So, that being said, I reiterate my former stated position: Let’s all just be cool and discuss things without the vitriol - which is coming from BOTH sides.
Where do we agree?
1. NO RINO candidates. Correct?
2. NO Socialist-lite candidates. Correct?
3. PARTY does NOT come before Country. Correct?
4. NEITHER PARTY has had OUR best interests at heart, for the most part. Correct?
5. We FIND the best/most Conservative candidate we can and push him or her FORWARD, and support that person. Correct?
6. We FIGHT against the PARTY if the PARTY tries to stick us with a Liberal RINO. Correct?
7. The DEMS MUST BE crushed in the next election, and NOT supplanted by a closet socialist from “our” side. Correct?
Other than that...what else is there to say? A LOT of this is WAY out of our direct control, unless, as I’ve said, we’re ALL elbow deep in our LOCAL politics, where we CAN exercise a measure of influence. If we act locally, we’re within the Six Foot Radius of Direct Personal Influence so to speak.
Look at this way: - OhioWfan - If a crazed, lunatic mujahedeen fanatic was holding a knife to Rabs’ throat and threatening to behead him, and YOU were there on scene as a first responder and had a gun, you’d blast the Moojie right between his eyes, because Rabs is a fellow American, correct? He’s one of US.
-Rabs: Same scenario for you. You’d drop the Mooj trash in his tracks to protect a fellow American, right?
(man,I hope to GOD both of you said YES!)
You protect the AMERICAN. Period. Because he/she is one of US. Whatever differences you have become moot, because it’s life or death at that point, and that AMERICAN will have your six, and you will have theirs.
Simplistic? Yeah. Hell, yeah. Absolutely so. But I’m a simple man. I view things that way.
I can’t solve your verbal wars for you out here; only YOU guys can do that - by stopping the vitriol on either side of the fence. And sooner or later, if it gets nasty enough, the Mods WILL step in and folks will be banned...and good voices on BOTH sides of this fence might get silenced - preventing newbies and others just joining in from learning what WE already know and were woken up to. Rabs, I learned a WEALTH of information from you and your “Juan McCain” updates. So did many other folks out here.
Remember one thing: At the end of the day, the other side HATES ALL of us equally. THEY don’t give a rat’s butt how YOU feel about each other, except as to how THEY can benefit from it. And believe me, a couple of assh*les over at Democrat Underground (good name for the b*stards) are probably haveing a FIELD day reading some of these threads. They’re positively salivating over it.
They’re the REAL b*stards; they and their czars and Kommisars, and their Washington Apparachniks and their little Skidmark wannabe dictator. We’re just the people caught in the crosshairs.
Again, one team, one fight. Agree to disagree, and then leave it alone.
It’s almost Christmas...a little Peace on Free Republic is a good thing. Capeesh?
The person's religion is irrelevant.
If someone was holding a knife to ohioWfan's throat, then yes, I would be happy to pick up that gun and blast the crap out of him (or her), if it became apparent that there was no way to prevent bodily harm from being inflicted upon ohioWfan without causing bodily harm to the person holding the knife.
Determining where that line is--i.e., when any attempts to get that person holding the knife to back down--a pure judgement call.
“Blessed are the Peacemakers”
LOL
Would I get a reward for saving ...?
Indeed but we can also salivate over DUmmies when they fight amongst themselves over such poignant issues as whether their fearless leader loves homosexuality enough and whether or not corporations run the rat party. And they allow profanity over there!