For my two cents, Rudy is only a surface issue, a peg to hang deeper disputes on. The war was going on before Giuliani was on the radar. The war was going on before the 2006 elections. Where I saw it most closely was in Terri threads, which had
nothing to do with electoral politics. Same little clique of ill-behaved disruptors. Same ideological hazing, same anti-conservative bias, same name-calling, same grumpiness, same lack of humor. When, recently, discussions did touch politics, the disruptors always sided with Michael Schiavo, Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee. In GOP races they sided with the more liberal candidate, deploying the same arguments we hear now for Giuliani.
All of this disruption is an insult to mainstream Freepers and an impediment to the success of Free Republic. I am not sorry to see it go.
For my two cents, Rudy is only a surface issue, a peg to hang deeper disputes on. The war was going on before Giuliani was on the radar. The deeper issue was the effort to incrementally drag FR leftwards. Unfortunately for that bunch, Rud's candidacy and their promotion of such turned the heat up high enough under the frog for the frog to notice.