Political labels such as "right" and "left" and "conservative" and "moderate" and "liberal" and "radical" mean different things when applied to exactly the same views in different places.
Your self-classification as a "moderate" therefore means nothing to me as your points of views could be the polar opposites or could be identical to mine.
The fact that strong disagreement can be found in any Free Republic thread demonstrates that everyone here is cut out of a slightly different cloth.
All true. And so what should I make of the fact that anyone would get rude with me, or anyone else?
I suppose the more functional response to rudeness of any sort would be to ignore it. But then that kind of goes back to my original questions about where a "moderate" is supposed to fit into the future of the Republican Party.