Interesting that you thought this might best be done by having people visit your blog.
I do not seek to steal traffic from Free Republic, in fact I hope that my pieces may do the opposite.
I suppose then that you will stop diddling that excerpt button and post the full text here.
Since you seem to be knowledgeable on this or at least you believe so, can you please point to me where in FR’s rules of use it says that you cannot post excerpts from your writings?