So Free Republic provided him the chance to feel a sense of accomplishment in his otherwise futile and wasted life?
Basically. When one's entire existence consists of disjointed prances from one meaningless verbal ejaculation to another, landing on an oasis of rationality like FreeRepublic empowers his feeble self worth, and even though he was quickly cast back into the liberal wilderness, his accomplishment grants him a badge of honor among his fellow reprobates.