Is Montana a good place for conservatives? (Missoula, Kalispell: houses, to buy)

[Montguy]

Originally Posted by 406FIRE309

You would be a good mod too, Montguy!

I think most of you guys are smart and intelligent. You are all passionate about certain things and can defend your arguments convincingly. As a moderator, your job would be to make sure the rules are followed and things dont go off subject. Although we all see things differently, I'm confident any of you wouldn't let your personal feelings interfere with your duties.

Why thank you, 406. As someone who has never used the 'ignore' function, I would make a fantastic moderator.

[Montguy]

Originally Posted by RotseCherut

I disagree that Montguy would be a good moderator as he has gone belligerent on me and others in other threads and made a lot of personal attacks and insults, breaking City Data rules and TOS. Not to mention how he thinks he personally has the authority of administering who is allowed in Montana and who is not, which I find a bit humorous, actually.

The guy shot me down because I expressed views that contradicted with his own and the guy being totally off the deep end in his views, decided to get aggressive and virulent on the threads because he doesn't think people should be allowed to disagree or contradict his infallible views.

I was hoping to meet some of those more "moderate" Montana liberals here, but instead met another ultra left-wing liberal fanatic like I have here in Seattle. I will say that the few liberals I did meet travelling through Montana seemed open-minded, down-to-earth and tolerant of the more conservative types of people as myself. When they heard I had a religion and didn't support the traditional liberal agenda, I didn't get shot down as a Nazi or a inhumane monster as I would by liberals in Seattle or Portland. Even me and this one dreadlocked hippie tye-dye wearing shirt guy I met in Darby, sat down and talked for hours about guns, hunting and about how we both don't trust the government. He also told me about the local mayor and sheriff he said who were crooks and on the take. Being that I don't know all the details about him, I couldn't judge the authenticity of his story. It was entertaining to hear his story and it sounded authentic, but obviously couldn't make a conclusion being an outsider. Me and him hit it off pretty well.

You were never shot down by anyone, for any reason, Rotse. You simply had a meltdown when you found out that many Montanans, including myself, are pro-choice and you still can't move past it.

[RotseCherut]

Originally Posted by Montguy

You were never shot down by anyone, for any reason, Rotse. You simply had a meltdown when you found out that many Montanans, including myself, are pro-choice and you still can't move past it.

Im not the one who had the meltdown, nor did I ever believe all Montanans are Pro-Life. What i dont like are people like you and the OP who attack people in a rampage if they think abortion is murder. People have the right to their views and lashing out on them for disagreeing hardly represents a person who is open-minded and respectful to others.

[Montguy]

Originally Posted by RotseCherut

Im not the one who had the meltdown, nor did I ever believe all Montanans are Pro-Life. What i dont like are people like you and the OP who attack people in a rampage if they think abortion is murder. People have the right to their views and lashing out on them for disagreeing hardly represents a person who is open-minded and respectful to others.

I don't believe that all Montanans are pro-choice, for that matter.

Can you by any chance identify this so-called "rampage" of mine? I just can't seem to recall...

[MTSilvertip]

Originally Posted by RotseCherut

406Fire, I am thinking the Montana forum badly needs a moderator.. I would vote for MTSilvertip, as he has been here for a while and has made great and helpful posts for the Montana forum. I think he would be a good candidate to take the helm left behind by ElkHunter. Of course, I understand that he may not have the time to do the mod job.

Originally Posted by Reziac

Good choice. Wait, Silvertip, come back! Why is he running so fast?? Dang, he's already out of sight.

[Elk invited me to the mod squad a while back, but I turned it down... done enough mod work elsewhere already, thanks anyway!]

Thanks guys, and I agree we desperately need a moderator, but I really don't have the time and temprement it would require.

I would have voted for Rez too, he has mod experience, he's levelheaded and knows the state well.

I usually don't rise to the bait when the trolls attack, but sometimes they are so off the wall you have to, but that's not a battle of wits, it's a battle of hatred, so I decided not to play as I'm not well equipped to fight on that level. I found out long ago that the only way you can defeat a troll is to starve them to death. If nobody responds to their crap, they lose intrest and move onto other victims who'll take their vitriol and play with them.

It's soooooo much nicer now that I can't see the personal attacks and name calling. Ignore is a great feature of this forum

Anyway, we do need to petition city-data for a new mod. We can't hope for someone as great as Elk was, but when we get one we need to support them and help them fit in here.

And I hope it's soon!!!

[Senah]

Maybe you guys just need a self-moderate button that kicks in when you start seeing 3+ quote boxes in your reply, or notice that the OP's question was 5-6 pages back, and it was only posted 2 days ago.

Nah - don't go changin'. It's not hunting season yet here in MT, and what else do the rest of us have to do with the water this hot and low but sit back and watch.

[redguard57]

I find it interesting that anybody prioritizes a place's politics when thinking about where to live.

[EastCoastRefugee2]

Originally Posted by MTSilvertip

You do realize the post you replied to is from August 1, 2007 right?

Rickers hasn't posted here in several years unfortunately, but I doubt asking a question about an 8 year old post will bring him back.

I've lurked that long on some sites

[KingstonBob]

Originally Posted by 406FIRE309

Reziac would have my vote as well!

Mine as well! Oh, speaking of voting, earlier today I did something I never thought I would do. I actually voted Liberal in the advance poll of the upcoming Canadian federal election, a party I haven't voted for since I was in my twenties. I'm not at all happy with the incumbent, Stephen Harper and his Conservatives (election fraud, corruption, atrocious treatment of veterans, etc.), and this is coming from someone who voted for him in the last FOUR federal elections.

[Reziac]

Far as I've heard, Harper is mostly about sucking the wealth out of Alberta so the rest of Canada doesn't have to live within its means... then again, that's hardly new!