Why don't you have yourself another vodka martini and quit calling half of Free Republic "political naifs" OR "newbies"?
And FWIW, those I call political naifs ARE political naifs are worse. Far too many people here,including you, talk about topics they know less than nothing at all about. They neither know nor understand the first thing about politics.
And it is and always has been usual,here on FR, to call out newbies.