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I couldn't figure out the connection until I found out that Barbara Olson was BKO and that she was a FR regular. Knowing how close she and Ted were to the Bush camp down there in Florida, I think I can make the leap that it was her giving him tidbits off this site.

It's not much of a leap at all. Think about this for a moment. From Barbara Olson's comments (God rest her soul) to Registered's "Sore/Loserman" graphic to the recent "Lets Roll" campaign (which also originated here on FR) it's probably safe to say that FR is "monitored" by both political camps.

Time and again, I've seen & heard "one liners" quoted directly off of FR on Rush, some of the Sunday Talking Heads shows, Sean Hannity reading directly off of FR, and even the democRATS themselves trying to refute the comments made HERE, without anyone in the Republican Party saying nary a word.

It's a beautiful thing. I find myself often commenting to my better half "we said that on FR!" when the lamestream media finally catches up to US!

Often the best comments posted here are biting, hard-hitting, incisive and cutting edge. This is when FR is at it's best, IMO. The impeachment of Clinton was one of FR's hilights, since so many here were so active in that effort, and the Florida Election debacle was another. I continue to believe to this day that without FR, Republicans & Conservatives (the two are not always the same) wouldn't have stood up and done what we did in Florida, to secure the rightful victory that was President Bush's.

FR's influence is far and wide. Our only "problem" is that we do not measure that influence, and exercize it as much as we can and should. We need to find a tool with which to measure and document FR's successes. We "know" what they are, we just don't measure, document, and credit ourselves for them as much or well as we should.

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It might be worth considering that everyone making a donation designate it as a personal gift to Jim Robinson. Since everyone is entitled to gift up to $10,000 per year to a person tax free, any excess should be able to be free of any income taxes on the LLC participants, mainly Jim Robinson.

Absolutely right. I remember posting "they rewrote the law" and I think it was even a heading. A few hours later Bush stepped up to the podium and said "they reworte the law". I just about fell off my perch. I quickly went back to find my post and couldn't find it. This is at a time when JimRob was deleting like crazy to make room for more bandwidth. But even so, I think the things we say here thinking we are only reaching each other is carried far and wide and we sometimes a bit to modest to say so.