Yes, there are many early signups who seldom post and then appear with contrary views. Who knows what the mindset was in 1997, 98, etc, when Free Republic began.
The other ‘issues’ kinda work both ways here sometimes.
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Ego is a big deal on the internet
As in “I am The One we have been waiting for!”
Notice the sloppy grammar Obama lets slip into his no-teleprompter ad libs?
He gets rolling and anything can come spewing out of his alleged brain in a queer fakeroo Southern accent