After checking into their evidence in several respects, and finding them as willfully misleading as Mr. Jackson's, I have ceased to give anything they say much credence. Too much of what they claim has proved to be out of context snippets, half truths, misinterpretations and outright lies, repeated ad nauseum.
Unfortunately, that mistrust of them as honest sources also includes their defenses of their own candidate - something I have had to fight against in myself in order to give honest consideration to Thompson or Hunter or others. The candidates are ill served by these minions. I class them with the same disdain I used to reserve for Begala and Carville, whose methods these supposed conservatives have adopted wholesale.
You both make very lucid, rational points. This thread is destined to become ugly and I probably won't be returning to read the comments. As for the disruptors, once in awhile I just post this picture and then go on my way. I'm an evangelical Christian, and they embarrass me.
