Posted on 11/19/2008 12:26:59 PM PST by kristinn
A Democrat is poised to take the reins of power in Washington, D.C., and Fresno resident Jim Robinson is feeling a sense of deja vu.
It was President Bill Clinton's 1992 election that sparked Robinson's political activism, driving him to create a Web site that made him a grass-roots leader among conservatives before Clinton's term was over.
This year, as Barack Obama prepares to sweep into office on another tide of Democratic votes, Robinson and denizens of that Web site, freerepublic.com, are preparing to do battle again.
"We'll double and redouble our efforts to fight for what is right," Robinson says. "We've got people just spitting nails."
Free Republic, founded by Robinson in September 1996, doesn't attract much attention from the national press and is not well-known among political experts. Many of its postings have a decidedly fringe feel.
But long before Red State, Daily Kos and Little Green Footballs arrived on the Internet political scene, Free Republic was building an audience -- and becoming a formidable political force among conservatives and libertarians that is admired even by some who disagree with its political philosophy.
In a study last month by the Internet ratings firm comScore, Free Republic ranked fifth among political blogs, just behind heavyweights The Huffington Post, Politico, Drudge Report and RealClearPolitics.
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You said, “Congrats Jim! Now get us the social network tools the Left has to organize conservatives on the Internet. We can’t afford to outmanned and outorganized. EVER AGAIN!”
I am gathering volunteers for social networking. I need lots and lots of volunteers. Please send me your e-mail address and we’ll get started. If you know any other good conservatives, send them my e-mail address. Tell them that they need to tell me, “Goldstategop sent me.”
Best FReegards — Jim
Thank you Jim and Kristinn and all the mods who make this the only place I go for news. You all are my lifeline to sanity. God bless you royally!
do we have elected officals come to free republic like the liberals and the Dems grovel to the KOS, move on and huffington hate post?
“We Don’t Get French Benefits?” ;)
O.R. complains that people who put him down and his show are the ones who do not watch
I wonder seeing as he puts this site down does he come on here all the time and read this site as does he get some college kid on an intern to do his work for him and the intern has left views anyway .
seeing as he likes to say hate then why does he have the likes of sharpton his buddy on his show.
Sharpton is a racist and a bully and yet O.R. HAS admitted they are friends.
Happy I do not watch him now since I saw him lick obama’/s arse in NH
exactly the left wing hate sites out up articles wrote by left wing radicals and sheep which go on there believe it all.
a few popped up after the homo’s got homo so called marriage, then the homo’s came on pretending to be conservatives trying to cause dissent in the ranks.
No worries we’re all ready as I am sure the mods are for the trolls to either pretend they are us or try to cause dissent
really
I thought she was liberal,
those liberal sites post mainly left wing bloggers articles or left wing articles.
Here on this site we put up all sorts of news from right and left.
We read the article and take it from there
the liberals are like sheep , they read a left wing blog article and actually think it is the truth even though it is all based on no facts or anything
“I thought she was liberal” (Kiran Chetry)
She might or might not be, but at CNN, I would think that leaning left is part of the job description.
good idea
maybe we might even have a couple of rich people who can donate a ton of money when one conservative official needs it
the liberals seem to have a load of rich folk who give the likes of KOS money when ever they need it for their liberal candidates or when they target a conservative
just said this to someone else
on here articles are out up from the left and the right and we judge for ourselves
on the left loon hate site they just have mostly bloggers articles or left wing stories where the sheep on there do not find out for themselves if it is true.
This election proved that those who voted for obama had no knowledge what so ever they voted for and I would say that they are the dumbest voters this country has ever produced
Funny, that's the same way we feel about you.
at school I always loved History and geography, still do especially History which I never stop learning about
It does seem that those who know these subjects tend to be more conservative.
Now I have lived in many countries and have settled here in this great country, I love history and I think because we know history we tend not to want to see it repeated in many cases,
Now the liberals seem to not have a clue about history they prefer art and crafts instead.
They try to rewrite history to suit their arts and crafts world .
They like their little world where there is no violence, tyrants etc so for the future they turn a blind eye to it as they do not seem to understand that ignorance leads to more problems down the road.
Hope you see what I am getting at
Agreed on both points, dear Incorrigible!!!
Possibly “registered” did Sore/Loserman. Out of all the election stuff I threw out, I saved my sore/loserman bumper sticker I printed right here.
“political experts” is an oxymoron, is it not?
Well, this last election cured me of anything GE or NBC. The Weather Channel I think is an NBC company. I’m done w/them too. They are pushing all the global greening initiatives to benefit parent company GE. They are largely responsible for the sham election.
cbs? They’ve been callin’ me since ‘04 because I freep. At least they’re aware of FR.
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