I sincerely hope this won't continue for the next 21 months. It's not looking good at the moment.
I'd be curious which particular candidates those might be and whether they'd be annoyed with spam being posted on threads about that particular candidate.
I realize that we've gone through this before with forum wars involving Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes. Instead of reasonable discussion, we get flame wars. Months of them.
It gets difficult to glean the reasonable discussion out of the numerous posts from the same cast of characters who descend on any thread to repeat their assertions, often using a cut and paste of the same post they made the previous hundred threads they were on.
Little new information gets exchanged, and what does is hidden in a barrage of spitballs.
I'd like to think FR could do better than this, but it hasn't shown that ability yet.