Rockin,
You have been around here long enough to remember where active posters have tried to use FR to promote items that got the Owner upset. We had Arator decide the everyone had better get behind Buchannan, we had people decide that Bush didn’t have to win primaries, we had people decide that FR was going to get behind a first declared candidate, a popular Mayor that was a good leader on 9/11 and not even wait for conservatives to declare — dozens of examples.
Alll JR is doing by posting his threads is saying he isn’t going to let his site be a Rah-Rah site for the less than solid conservative candidates.
As far as standing up to group-think and posters acting like you were an idiot if you didn’t think (1)Flight 700 was taken out by a Clinton orderd missle, (2)Ron Brown was shot on the plane and the plane brought down on purpose, (3) everyone that doesn’t homeschool hates America, (4)Wesley Clarke burned Waco personally or any of the other more iconoclastic positions — well hell, that sort of stuff has been going on for the whole life of the site and you just have to firmly make a sensible case and most of that fades back into proper proportion (Unknown, true with reservations or false with reservations) within a few months.
If you feel you can’t post your flavor of conservative thought here, please post it somewhere. Conservatism is the salvation of our nation.
I personally have been unscathed. Overall I’m probably more conservative in many ways than most people I know, but I’m also quite pragmatic at times. (FYI McCain was NOT the smart, pragmatic choice but I digress...)