Dirt, they'd have to be self aware to be self-parodying. So that can't be it.
Good point. I guess I was giving them too much credit.
It's nothing more than old-fashioned hypocrisy. How else can you decry "rude and infantile morons" when you've just used the term "stale fart" to describe your host's website?
And I have yet to see anyone banned for being a polite Rudy booster - just a rude, arrogant, conservative-value attacking Rudy booster. I have more respect for those who don't try to either sell us on the notion that Rudy is a conservative or who don't try to trash social conservatives to boost Rudy.