Since you asked ...
Sure, a n00b should "jump right in". But if they're trolls, they should expect that other FR posters may jump right back at 'em if their behavior seems more trollish than conservative. For example:
Rod Dreher?! Srsly? Rod Dreher makes up ways to attack Sarah Palin. And to be able to use a "sacrilegious" angle? He's literally peeing on himself over the glee. You can say she made a really poor joke/analogy, but sacrilege? C'mon Man! That crosses into Pharisee land. And liberals like Dreher who could care less about the sacredness of Christian baptism are delighted over how they can use it to drive a wedge amongst conservatives.
And it's a two-fer for them! They can also divide conservatives over the definition of 'torture'.
You make the call. What has this thread caused at FR? For a brand new n00b to POST a thread like this (rather than reply on other threads), is not a coincidence, IMHO.
Therefore, I stand behind my first post (and Viking Kitty ping) ... Sniff.