Actually DC seems not too bad, there is a lot of FR bashing going on at this moment naturally, but even without checking out the whole site I get the impression that they have their own gig going on.
Social conservatives and the anti-social conservatives are the two different halves of the Republican party, for our groups to be happy we need a little separation for our group conversations, then we can fight in the primaries and party platform committees etc.
Your right of course. DC is a well designed and run site. It is interesting the Admins and Mods actually post their screen names. I think most of the FR bashing is coming from leftovers of the evo wars.
It goes on constantly.