I believe WhistlingPastTheGraveyard to be correct. This cannot be anything else. I sense fear coming out of the Democrat camp, and some RINOs are fearful as well. This has to be what is taking place. Powerful people sometimes will make ‘power plays’. I believe Free Republic is seeing a ‘Power Play’. There can be no other explanation, in my humble opinion, but to agree with WhistlingPastTheGraveyard. Those making this ‘power play’ desire is to either shut down Free Republic, or make it completely PC and leave the people who come here with no voice. I will not go PC, never been there, and I am too old to go PC now. Gentlemen, if PC is the coming trend, I am doomed, as is Rush, as is every Conservative.