Time to part company

myself | 4/1/05 | hchutch

[Not A Snowbird]

So much for your guarantees. I read the entire opus.

Show-off. :-)

[GRRRRR]

Hey, I was gonna say that! Blah blah blah...it's amazing to me that we FREEPERS just can't realize we are so different but SHOULD be united in just one central goal--BEATING DEMONRATS!!!

WE are supposed to be the GOP of the big tent etc...but as soon as we hit some bump in the road, all I see are peeps over-reacting and jumping ship...

Come on people! IT's not just one battle...it's going to be a long, long war!! We may not get everything we want, we will NOT get anything from the RATS without a fight. THEY took everything they stole over a 50 year or so period of time...the INCREMENTALLY have created this JUDICIAL Tyranny, such that WE THE PEOPLE can't change it in just 4 years...it will take ANOTHER Republican President and then ANOTHER and ANOTHER...and more REAL GOP Senators and Reps...not these stinking RINO's like the 5 or 6 well known ones like Snow and Specter...

Chill out, let's get what we can get this year, then the next and so on..

Leaving FR because we all don't have the exact same opine..sheesh, nose-meet the knife!

G

[RepublicMan4U]

I'll admit, I've not been super active here over the last few years, but I'm a little confused about the second paragraph. I've always thought FR had something of a Neo-Con majority in terms of immigration. I don't know how many times I've looked at archived, older pro-Buchanan, pro-Paleo, anti-illegal immigration threads only to see that the poster had since been "banned or suspended." Are you saying that FR is too conservative on immigration issues? If so, I'm not sure how you're getting that. Maybe I'm a little confused.

I do agree that things got a little nasty here over Terri Schiavo, on both sides. It was the same around the beginning of the Iraq war. Things tend to mellow back out. I just hope this is not because all the dissenters are banned. :)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I guarantee nobody read your entire opus.

And you would be wrong.

[Rebelbase]

Opusfest 2005 has begun.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Hate to see you go, but it's quite understandable why.

Its almost as if a concentrated effort is going on here lately to shut up those who dissent.

[Hardastarboard]

If you think this site is a bunch of extremists, go to Democratic Underground (bring a barf bag, you'll need it). Sure, there are ideas I disagree with here, but so what? It's called free speech. People are allowed to say things you disagree with, even stupid things. We're just lucky enough to have Jim Robinson and this website to be able to do so in a public forum, the electronic equivalent of the town square.

[arasina]

Darned fine opus, hutch. I agree with you on just about every point made. I'm sorry to see you go and hope you come back once the out-of-control whackos depart. And they surely will, because their unreasonable form of 'debate' is not productive and eventually fizzles and melts just like the Wicked Witch of The West. :o)

[LibSnubber]

Didn't figure you for a quitter. Don't know why you didn't just avoid the threads you knew would offend you. Can't imagine why you felt you had to start a thread to say you were leaving. But I'm not going to leave this place just because I don't understand (or like) what other people may say and do around here. Just doesn't make sense. But, good luck to you.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I don't believe you.

[Petronski]

[Concentrate]

Don't take yourself so seriously. The Terri threads were not out of control, but rather, a LOT of people chime in when something very important happens that gets everybody a little hot under the collar. Don't worry about it. BTW, nice picture. I didn't know you were a woman!

[wyattearp]

Show-off. :-)

Naw, just bored.

[FreedomCalls]

I was unaware the Free Republic was here in order to massage your ego. I thought we were supposed to debate conservative issues -- which means taking the heat sometimes and not always getting your way. I'm sorry if I misunderstood what Free Republic was all about. I promise from now on to always check with you to see if my opinion is acceptable to you before expressing it here. God knows, Free Republic will be better off if all subsequent posts after the first one are simply "Me too!" posts. No dissents allowed.

Excuse me, I have to go polish my jackboots since we will all be marching in lockstep now. Oh wait. Sorry. I forgot to ask first. "May I please go polish my jackboots, hchutch sir?"

[silent_jonny]

I read the entire opus.

Congratulations! Here's a cookie.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Opusfest 2005 has begun.

You ain't seen 'nothin' yet...

[peyton randolph]

If I had a nickel for every time some recently signed-up poster says that, I'd be rich.

And still irrelevant. 1. I've lurked here since '98. 2. Your purported seniority means nothing to me. 3. If you don't like it, too bad. 4. Want to make an issue of it, I hope the mods do to you what happened to many of the Brigadiers back in '00.

[teenyelliott]

True, but it will calm down.

[TXBubba]

Don't be a smartass. The Smokey Backroom was created fro the purposes of being the place where teh flame wars and nastiness occurred, keeping the main forum rather enjoyable...

Really? I knew there was a reason I've never gone there. Then again, I was never invited.

[M. Thatcher]

Don't be a smartass.

Don't be a drama queen.