Gitty Up!
The fact of the matter is FR does very little to push anything in the real world, though lately it does seem to do well at pushing against each other. Personally, I have normally found FR to be informative and educational over the years. Though there has always been an upper crust of activists here (and a lower one using conservative hot buttons to get our $$'s), there are too many people happily typing away and not getting involved in local politics. Even the events of the past that would seem to show FR as making a real-world impact, including Sore-Loserman, the CBS Forgeries, etc., most likely would have evolved out of the Blogosphere. It's nice to have a community of like-minds (even somewhat like-minds) to come and have a cordial debate of current events from the perspective of the right. Those days are most likely gone. I won't wax poetic :-)