The person "conservative98" you are talking has all the incontrovertible characteristics of a "suddenly sign up" troll, and joined Free Republic only in the last few weeks (probably for this primary season) to be a disrupter, and nothing else. Take it/them with a grain of salt.
Normally that's good advice but I fear that these 'trolls' are beating down the good guys. Even on FR it seems particpation is down and I think it's because of these people who continually spout negative crap.
Of course I can't fight the world, I should probably chilax :-)