You make a big mistake thinking that it represents GOP or conservative opinion in the country as a whole.
It doesn't.
and you fool yourself if you think some party activists saying "gee, the base supports this pick" is indicative of anything other than their ability to suck up to party leaders.
So you make an "ad hominem" attack on FR and further commit a collectivist fallacy. No one claims FR is representative of anything. It is nothing more than a collecton of statement by individual posters within guidelines set out by Jim Robinson. What seems to bother you is that a very large number of individual opinions are falling outside of the collectivist talking points that others have prescribed.
Precisely. The real GOP isn't anywhere near as whacked as this place is.
I disagree with you here. FR is the largest conservative forum on the web, and therefore has the most accurate cross-section of conservative thought. If not FR, which other web forums do you believe represent conservative opinion better?
What about the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal?
Or National Review?
Or The American Spectator?
Do they represent the GOP, or even conservative opinion?