You made some rather sweeping assertions about your opponents. Too many folks will make such generalizations about the other side - using "they" and "them" - but when confronted, they'll plead that they didn't target anyone in particular. Sorry, but that is no defense.
If you don't think Democrats are posting here, pretending to be anti-Bush by posing as conservative purists, you haven't been paying attention.
I've been here a long, long time and have smoked out more trolls than you'll ever know. The actual closet democrats usually lose it soon enough and out themselves with a little prodding.
But it's wrong to make claims that posters on the other side in a debate must be closet Democrats, especially when many of them have been here for years and have made many solid conservative postings. It just adds to incivility when people do that - would YOU like having your opinion on a subject being critiqued as that of a closet Democrat?
If you've outed a lot of trolls, it's hypocritical of you to take exception to others doing the same thing...and if I were critiqued as a closet Democrat I'd post evidence to the contrary.
I find it telling that you're the only person who chose to take me to task for stating that some on the Laura Bush thread were Democrats. When I asked why you took personal exception ("please show me any posts I've ever made that show I'm a Democrat") to a non-specific post ("some of them are Democrats") you refused to answer. Very strange.
Perhaps you envision yourself as a paragon of fairness or reason or impartiality; but you were defending people who were attacking Laura Bush in some of the foulest ways imaginable. If you're going to do that, you're actually my political enemy and helping to further the goals of the Democrat Party. The Democrats have been smiling through this entire Laura Bush episode, trying to foment conservative vitriol against her and her husband for her speech and using their lackeys in the press for that purpose. It defies reason to claim that they aren't here posting on this subject, and it defies reason to assume that they'd bash Laura as out-of-the-closet Democrats, for which they'd be laughed off the board.
They have to pretend to be conservatives and troll for agreement from the fringers. They're doing it, and they're either laughing at you or applauding your efforts to maintain their fiction.