Nothing happened in 1996 to change the world. Unless you work within the GOP to pursue a conservative agenda that is shared by almost all here, you'll be powerless.
Six moderate-liberal GOP Senators don't make the other 43 bad. Trent Lott scored a 100 the last two sessions as scored by the American Conservative Union.
Let's get rid of six bad RINOS in the Senate, the 40 distrustful Pubbies out of 218 in the House, and let's beat 4 or 5 unctuous RATS in the Senate who are sweating down to their gonads right now. This is a game of inches.
If you don't pitch in, if you just bitch and then abandon the battle in a bogus snit, then you shouldn't show your face around here. The GOP IS .... IS ... IS ... IS ... the Conservative Party in American politics. That's a fact Jack.
This is where it's at, for the forum and the nation.
In all of my activism, I've learned the hard way that you can work in a postive fashion for a politician for years and he would never even know you damn name. You show up once to put your foot in his ass and he never forgets you.
Free Republic is working in the positive now, which is fine and apporpriate as there's a time for everything. Our next mission should be picking off some these RINO ruiners. We won't get all of them but if we focus correctly we can make examples of some of them. Make an example of just one of them and all of a sudden the rest start wanting to hear what you have to say.
It would do a lot towards the cohesiveness of FR as nearly EVERYONE hates RINOS, we wouldn't have much to bicker about.
We've got to harness this power we've been given, we can't afford to water it down or waste this great gift.
Look at the science. Which FReeps are the most effective, the ones where we support something or the ones where we are angry and motivated? Think about it, most of us came here (in fact the forum was started) out of anger.
Righteous anger is appropriate, as God hates evil. We have to go to war again or our soldiers are going to find other battles.
Am I making any sense?