Reply #147: I'm not 100% sure why, but I find your post utterly persuasive.

[stickdog]

IMHO, Clark supporters infiltrated the board, built up their candidate through an (arguably artificial) show of strength, and used Republican argumentation techniques and bullying tactics to make GD all but unbearable.

Then when some supporters of other candidates -- yes, most numerically Dean -- started fighting back, half of Clark's supporters started whining while the other half proceeded to bash and bully even more unbearably idiotically (with the exception of the many who did both at once).

Add in a few "special guest star" posts explaining that this devolution was just the "natural state" of "group dynamics" and suddenly it became time to put on the kid gloves before Clark so much as slapped up an issue section on his website.