Time to part company

myself | 4/1/05 | hchutch

[pollywog]

if you don't believe that our current lax approach to immigration in this country is a serious problem, you really have your head buried in the sand. The fact that driver's licenses are being given out to people that should not be getting them is one of the key factors that permitted 9/11 to take place.

As far as the culture war goes, the left has been actively waging it through government for well over three decades. Take a good look around you at what's going on.

You hit the nail on the head. Thanks!!

[danmar]

Excellent choice, but I will stick with my "Upmann's" and especially "Padron's".

[MarMema]

Easy enough to say when you are still eating and drinking.

[SedVictaCatoni]

But leaving here is like leaving the Republican party.

God help us all if this were actually true.

[FReepaholic]

...However, I also got a very bad feeling when the Schindlers embraced the likes of Randall Terry and Bo Gritz. ...

I'm gonna bet they don't know the full backgrounds of these men. I'm gonna bet that they were desperate and grasping at any straw they could.

[Liberator]

"The tone and outright viciousness (terms like FROBL and traitor were fired off at anyone who did not toe the line established by Michelle Malkin and Tom Tancredo) on immigration threads had concerned me...[and] now find that I fear the social conservatives as much as I fear the loony left."

Boo-effin-Hoo.

You and your pinged pathetic band of moral relativist Statists and stealth Globalists are worse than Democrats.

[mabelkitty]

Sigh....

[mabelkitty]

Boy, are you going to wish you never said that after you read the rest of the posts.

[Liberator]

"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 better when the diseased part of the herd culls themselves, isn't it?

[Liberator]

"Darned fine opus, hutch. I agree with you on just about every point made...."

With all due respect, you just congratulated a cry-baby who couldn't take the heat.

[monkeyshine]

I have read nothing on this thread, but I am 100% certain that the responses will be better than the lead-in.

[Cboldt]

Oh, heck. The comment wasn't about spelling. Mine is awful too. I just never thought about "accidental hypocricy" (or however it's spelled) ;-)

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

I would define it as sanctimony, not a prediction. But then again, I guess it is human nature to assume that, in case of a dispute, it is always the other man who is narrow and fanatical.

Sorry, but I see no substantial difference in the behavior of the side of these arguments represented by the original poster than I do the "special interest groups in the conservative movement" you so fear. For every thread calling M.S. a murderer, there was one accusing the Schindlers of glorying in the media attention or being out for monetary gain. Considering the circumstances, both extremes were reprehensible. But that's par for the course in a rough-and-tumble forum where ideas are expressed openly. Whining about it doesn't do anything but make those who do look wussy.

Your original post presented the loss of the original poster (and others of his same opinion) as something regretful. I don't necessarily agree. All things change, people come and go, and any large group of passionate people will have a fluid membership. He will be replaced, just as you or I would be. The only difference is that some of us don't feel that our exit will necessitate a grand rhetorical flourish (or pious intonings by our fellow travelers about what this "means" for Free Republic). If he's no longer happy here, I'm sorry. But far "bigger" names than his have disappeared over the years, and FR has kept right on chugging along. So it will when I leave, so it will when you leave...

[pissant]

Thanks for the warning, but I promise not to run away (much to several freepers' dismay)!

[Liberator]

"This forum is not for the faint hearted."

Absolutely not...

Yet he's squawking because he's gotten his teeth kicked on merit whereever he's posts.

[A CA Guy]

Yeah, you need to start a best Opus thread.

[FreedomSurge]

Glad to see you go, hope you don't come back. If you can't understand the passion the killing of Schiavo created, you are not someone I want to see posting on this forum. If your skin is too thin to take the rough and tumble, go buy a kleenix factory.

You big wimp.

[pissant]

Ha!!! You owe me a new keyboard. Top 10 Opuses!!!!! I'll do next week!

[eyespysomething]

Well that sucks.

[nopardons]

So sorry you're leaving!