Should Trump supporters be banned from this forum?

[Southron]

I'm no fan of Trump but he has taken up issues that resonate with people. There has been room in the GOP for a hardline immigration candidate, as well as someone who rejects free trade.

Now I'm skeptical whether Trump would do anything at all on either issue, but you have to admit that no other candidate has made them focal points. The door was wide open for something like this to happen. I think the GOP really still has no idea why it lost the last 2 Presidential elections.

As for banning, I wouldn't want to see any perm-bans but the mods should do what they think best. It shouldn't turn into a Trump forum either.

 

[Smitty]

If anything, the mods should attempt to do something about the people who have banned themselves from this forum.

Where the hell has everyone gone?

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

I'm no fan of Trump but he has taken up issues that resonate with people. There has been room in the GOP for a hardline immigration candidate, as well as someone who rejects free trade.

Now I'm skeptical whether Trump would do anything at all on either issue, but you have to admit that no other candidate has made them focal points. The door was wide open for something like this to happen. I think the GOP really still has no idea why it lost the last 2 Presidential elections.

As for banning, I wouldn't want to see any perm-bans but the mods should do what they think best. It shouldn't turn into a Trumo forum either.

in my local gop about 30% of us said we would not be voting for Mitt Romney. It was a beautiful moment.

 

[Rad]

I voted Yes. I think anything against group think is bad! All none Rand supporters should be banned. This is a forum dedicated to the maintenance of Paul Inc

 

[cajuncocoa]

I had no issue with you asking a question. What I did have a problem with was when you ran around all over the forum spewing the same crap over and over again; much of it a pack of lies.

I hope that answers your question.

I know you've always misunderstood that, so I'm not going to argue with you on it. I'm just not in the mood for that today.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Should people who support someone different than who you support be banned? Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds?

 

[Massachusetts]

No, but I don't think the Rand Paul subforum should be littered with Trump posts.

 

[69360]

Simple solution. Any new post with the word "Trump" in the title gets deleted. If I owned this that is how I would handle it.

 

[anaconda]

Go ahead. And if you want to defend a big government statist like Trump, be my guest. I'm just sick of it.

LOL. Allowing freedom of speech in no way infers that one agrees with the content.

 

[timosman]

LOL. Allowing freedom of speech in no way infers that one agrees with the content.

This needs to be explained ?

 

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

People should not be banned for having contrary opinions. The fact that this needs to be said on a "libertarian" forum is baffling. The fact that Trump is so popular on RPF is much more about Rand's failings than anything else. Ignore that fact at your own peril.

 

[Brett85]

LOL. Allowing freedom of speech in no way infers that one agrees with the content.

Freedom of speech is simply the right of people to speak freely without getting arrested and imprisoned by the government. No one has a right to post comments here. We are all guests of the owner of this forum. If the owner of this forum decided to ban all Trump supporters, it wouldn't violate anyone's free speech rights.

 

[Brett85]

Should people who support someone different than who you support be banned? Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds?

I'm not saying that. If they at least supported a decent alternative like Cruz, I wouldn't have a problem with that. Notice that I didn't advocate banning Cruz supporters, if there are any here. But Trump agrees with us on nothing. He's the antithesis to liberty. He's a big government liberal through and through. He's more liberal and more statist than even the GOP establishment.

 

[cajuncocoa]

I'm not saying that. If they at least supported a decent alternative like Cruz, I wouldn't have a problem with that. Notice that I didn't advocate banning Cruz supporters, if there are any here. But Trump agrees with us on nothing. He's the antithesis to liberty. He's a big government liberal through and through. He's more liberal and more statist than even the GOP establishment.

Cruz??? LOL

 

[ThePaleoLibertarian]

I'm not saying that. If they at least supported a decent alternative like Cruz, I wouldn't have a problem with that. Notice that I didn't advocate banning Cruz supporters, if there are any here. But Trump agrees with us on nothing. He's the antithesis to liberty. He's a big government liberal through and through. He's more liberal and more statist than even the GOP establishment.

Not everyone who posts here are doctrinaire libertarians. There are paleocons, constitutionalists, ancaps, minarchists and reactionaries like me. There are even a few liberals who post here. What someone does or doesn't support shouldn't be a prerequisite for posting on RPF.

 

[Smitty]

If they at least supported a decent alternative like Cruz, I wouldn't have a problem with that. ..

LOL!!

 

[Origanalist]

The mold bug is banned, I wonder why?

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

I'm not saying that. If they at least supported a decent alternative like Cruz, I wouldn't have a problem with that. Notice that I didn't advocate banning Cruz supporters, if there are any here. But Trump agrees with us on nothing. He's the antithesis to liberty. He's a big government liberal through and through. He's more liberal and more statist than even the GOP establishment.

Well, if people here apparently find something to see in this liberal statist, then their views aren't bothering or affecting anyone else's unless they let them, which apparently some have if they advocate getting rid of Trump supporters altogether.

 

[Brett85]

Not everyone who posts here are doctrinaire libertarians. There are paleocons, constitutionalists, ancaps, minarchists and reactionaries like me. There are even a few liberals who post here. What someone does or doesn't support shouldn't be a prerequisite for posting on RPF.

Maybe I should've made my question more clear. Should people who constantly post threads about Donald Trump but never post anything else be allowed to post here? Those are the kind of people I'm talking about.

 

[Brett85]

LOL!!

Cruz is at least opposed to trillion dollar corporate bailouts and trillion dollar stimulus bills. Donald Trump is every bit as fiscally liberal as someone like Bernie Sanders, if not more so. Heck, even Bernie Sanders opposes bailouts.