Words I thought I would never say.... I agree with John Foust.

Something very strange happened here in comments, John Foust made a post I agreed with completely.

In that thread Foust had the following quote, "Blog owners are free to make their own rules, and ban anyone or edit comments for any reason they like. That's life. Would you want it any other way?"

I agree with John completely.

This is in reference to a very nasty personal attack made against me on Friday in a comment thread. I really don't care to repeat the insult but I found it distasteful enough to delete the comment and ban the poster. I stand by my decision.

Well the next thing you know the person who slung this insult and earned the ban was invited to be a contributor on an area liberal blog (one of the more popular ones). Of course the first thing they did was to write a piece slamming me for daring to ban them for insulting me at my own blog. It is a shame really, I used to respect the proprietor there, but he has decided to roll in the mud rather than have any sense of decorum or honesty.

Another area liberal blog (one that does nothing but attack local conservative people personally) was so impressed that they issued an invitation to the person who insulted me as well.

I don't care to link to either of those blogs, you can find them yourselves.

This is what the attack left has been doing and I really don't want any part of it. In one of the comments there they actually said that Jessica McBride claimed to have been called "the c word" by a liberal blogger. There is no claim, she was. But as usual the left will continue to ignore and excuse their own bad behavior.

Several times yesterday I began to email the proprietor of the first blog. In anger the emails all started like this, "You ^&!@@! (*&@! !(@!&*(^!@_)" I deleted them all before hitting the send button. The simple fact is, I don't want to be like them. They've been scouring the web looking for examples of me getting terse. What they fail to acknowledge is that all of those instances were in response to nasty personal attacks against myself. I've never done that type of posting and I'm not going to start now. Furthermore, I will no longer respond to their personal attacks against me, they are unworthy of any effort in response.

Frankly I understand that the only reason the hateosphere spends so much time attacking me is that we have been effective here in communicating a message. Take a serious look at who they attack, it is a list of the most powerful and effective local conservative bloggers, broadcasters and one print media columnist. They are just following in the lessons learned from their hero Bill Clinton to personally attack their opponents.

Let them do as they will, frankly I don't care. The more they act like 2 year-olds throwing tantrums for not getting their way, the sillier they look.

I say at the head of this blog, we ask that you keep your tone in check and respect those who are willing to share. I mean that.

Discussing issues where we may disagree can get heated upon occasion. Let me also add that I have a job, I have a life and there are way too many comments here for me to moderate them all. I also miss a comment from time to time. If you see something you think is out of line, please let me know. I've deleted and banned posters right and left and I'll continue to do so if they cross the line.

And I guess the hateosphere of the left will continue to attack me for it.

So be it.