I came onto FR, and bluntly put, I saw the Pro-Tom people just villifying and going personal at the Pro-Arnold people. And then I saw some coming at the Pro-Tom folks. It was the ugliest brawl I've personally witnessed in FR. I was way too busy at the start of the "TR ugly" in FR to see how it all started out ("who launched the first punch"). (I didn't dare enter the Schiavo threads much at all.)
What you saw was the mcclintock people villifying while the arnold people saying they like mcclintock but he can't win. Mcclintock is a class act and supported arnold totally after the election. His supporters do not have his good common sense.