“They are not liberals or socialists, as so many gleefully assert.”
The biggest common factor that the banned freepers and the sturdier Rudy promoters still here share, is an intolerance for social conservatives, and the faithful.
I wonder if you have put your finger on the real crux of this thing. Is that what is going on here, is support for Giuliani being used as a lever to rid FR of those who aren't social conservatives? To make this a primarily "social conservative" site? To make a declaration that it isn't conservatism if it isn't social conservatism?