I disagree, sir.
I have personally been cited more than once in national Conservative conversations (radio and electronic print).
I’ve made a difference in other ways, too, using this as my platform. I’ve gotten ideas and good counter-attacks to the people who needed them, often through an intermediary.
Larry S (LS) is a prodigious influence on current events, and he uses FR primarily.
There are a few of us here.
FR is watched closely and balloons are first tested here. There are several ways we have been influencing politics here that surprise even me in their rapidity in adoption. I have been here a long time and see our impact and direct quotes from FR in the media.
I’ve got a lot bigger claim to fame than that.
But not only did I not do it here, I could not have done it here even if I had wanted to.
So I did it somewhere else, and rocked the world.
This place is OK for being tame and limited.
It’s not like FR didn’t have the opportunity to be influential; it could have been ahead of the anti-establishment curve by refusing to line up for McCain and Romney. It could have played a role in accelerating the process, and maybe saved us a term of Obama.
Personally, I’d love to hear your list of adjectives on your countdown cited on radio and tv. They are hilarious!
I was the first to post a picture of D-Day with GI’s wading off of a LCVP with the caption “College age boys leaving their safe space”. That took off like a bat out of hell. Became a meme.