Reply #45: Many. Some posters are outright Republican trolls, some are RWers who somehow managed to

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stay just below the radar until they hit 1000 posts, and still do. (You can spot them by lots of criticism for Democratic positions, lots of criticism of specific Democrats, but never any praise for either). And hatred of immigrants, affirmative action, etc.

But, yes, the DLC mentality is very close to the Republican mentality.

And then, there are the hero worshippers who seem short on ideology themselves, but will praise and defend ANYthing New Democrat Obama does, try hard to pre-empt criticism of him, attack poster critical of him, criticizes, etc. Other hero worshippers have other favorites, like Kerry or Pelosi.

And some of the hero worships have a broader horizon than just a Democrat or two and defend ANYthing the Party and any Democrat does, with the possible exception of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, like Kuch, Feingold, Dean, members of the House Progressive Caucus, etc.

Favorite type of canards: You are just like the RW; you are helping the RW; you made Martha lose, etc.

Put all those sub-groups together and you get a lot of Republican sounding posts, only maybe with less crazy and more spell check.