As much as he had his head up his butt on many issues, I honestly think the guy was sincere in his beliefs and not necessarily a "troll". I battled with him for years on the drug war and illegal immigration, but believe it or not, he was actually a reasonably nice dude when you caught up with him on a non-political thread.
I only dealt with him on the illegal immigrant threads. He was offensive, insulting and contridicted himself.
I was warned off by others. They said he baited people into going over the line in order to get them banned.
We called her on it, after some poster claimed to know her in person.
There were times - especially around the McCain/Kennedy amnesty voting - that she would post 30 or 40 posts a day, and then ping everyone who disagreed with her position on the matter, to the thread and then never replied to anything at all.