I agree - I often wonder what a strategy on FR might be to split conservatives. One method would be to plant two (or more) groups of conservatives into a forum and then start a fake disagreement between the planted groups and then build followings until you have RINOs and extremists going back and forth.
Bingo - disenfranchise followers and by reducing the conservative footprint at the polls - more dems get elected.
Some of the harsh words on FR leads me to believe that this has been in full swing for some time - how many times have you heard that people are staying home and not voting.
Even after the Bush tax cuts became permanent there was very little (or no) cheering on FR.
There is NOTHING to cheer about. It's the Spending Stupid.
It's not the tax rates that matter. It's the other 80,000 pages of tax code that is doing the damage. And the size of the tax code increase every year that GWB was President.
Just like the fiscal cliff setup was a man-made disaster when it was originally passed.
Too much compromise by the GOPe.
There are so many DU and Ron Paul libertarian plants here it makes me puke.