Replies

In the 2000 Bush campaign, we discovered something right here on Free Republic. The campaign would send out press releases but they wouldn't get published so three of us decided to try getting the word out for the campaign on FR and asked that Freepers email or deliver the press releases to their local papers. Over time, press releases started getting published and letters to the editor in support of Bush/Cheney began appearing.

I have always said that Free Republic was the link in the chain that helped elect the President and then fought for his right to be President in Florida and around the Nation during the Florida fiasco.

It is not often that one person can make a difference but when you combine an army of folks like on FR, we can all make a difference by sending items like this to our local media and writing letters to the editor. If you are consistent and keep it up, sooner or later more will join the effort.

You cannot sit back and say the MSM is not going to report -- you have to take action if it means taking an article like this personally to your local media and asking them why they continue to ignore and then contact sponsors with the same information. It takes time but you never quit fighting and giving into the liberals and their sidekicks in the media.

If the Oklahoman Conservative Republican Grassroots got discouraged at the lies and lack of reporting on the facts of what Dr. Coburn was saying during the campaign, then he wouldn't be in the Senate. We spent every day calling people, talking to people, sending letters to the editor, calling talk shows to get support for Dr. Coburn.

A phoney poll from the Tulsa World before the election said Dr. Coburn was going to lose by a fairly large margin -- that Friday night we had a fundraiser in Norman attended by some Freepers and a lot of others as you could barely move around the room, and he received quite a bit of money. The most important part was that we believed in this man and with the turnout and our words, he felt that belief, left the event in high spirits and went on to clobber the Clinton candidate in the general election.

Out of many campaigns I have been involved with, those two stand out as examples of what happens when we work together as a group even though we come from various states. Conservatives have to stop getting down or saying something cannot be done -- roll up the sleeves and get it done or keep at it until it is changed. Takes time, patience, and understanding of the enemy but in the end we will win because we have the winning message.

My two cents on this cold, sunny Wednesday morning here in the Heartland of the Country and home to the grassroots movement of Dr. Tom!