Hey you opened the subject, not me. You and the cat have been making some pretty serious accusations without the fortitude to back them up. I have been around here for a lot longer than my present name states. I would have to ask Jim or the one of the mods to check my original date to be sure but I think it was around 1999. This place has NEVER been a church social. It was and still is a "faction" driven site. The "old-timers" made one semantically odious mistake that, truth to tell, can be traced to the situation we have today. They coined the term "BushBot". They were not content to debate the Bush republicans on the issues, they wanted to make it clear that Bush republicans were NOT "true-conservatives".
A church social, eh? I wouldn't know about them since I've never been to one.
How about some old-fashioned civility? Or are conservatives just as interested in smashmouth politics as Carville and Begala?
And BTW, most of the really heated, but substantive arguments disappeared from this site a while ago.