Posted on 11/09/2002 11:10:25 AM PST by MTCJK
Since i discovered Free Republic almost 5 years ago, it has become quite apparent that FR has become one of the most fast-moving and practical sources for conservative news.
Five years ago, I was an angry American (Clinton scandals). Today, I am a very informed conservative activist with constant information at my fingertips (thanks to FR)
I believe that if we could each tell five conservative friends about FR in the next two years, we could educate them to the point of activism.
What i would be interested to hear from my FR friends is their personal experiences about sharing FR with friends and ideas for promoting FR to listening, but unmotivated conservatives we know. Thanks for your help!
Five years ago, I was an angry American (Clinton scandals). Today, I am a very informed conservative activist with constant information at my fingertips (thanks to FR)
I believe that if we could each tell five conservative friends about FR in the next two years, we could educate them to the point of activism.
What i would be interested to hear from my FR friends is their personal experiences about sharing FR with friends and ideas for promoting FR to listening, but unmotivated conservatives we know. Thanks for your help!
--Boris
Ditto "Join The Resistance"
I had watched both candidates run a good campaign and went to listen to GWB speak when he was here in the great state of Wisconsin and I really liked what I heard.
The night of the election, I went to bed at around 3 AM with a smile on my face and a dream that soon I would be waking up in the morning to PBS saying . . "Good Morning, President Bush today . . "
But we all woke up in a nightmare. . .
After the first recount was finished, and Bush had won, I remember watching little George S. on ABC trying to tell people that what gore was doing was a GOOD THING and I just about blew a gasket!
After years of clinton slime, here was the guy who spiked the wanita broadrick(sp?) story just in time to get his boy clinton into power and now he's useing ABC to tell ME that what Al Gore is doing is a GOOD THING (tm)martha !?
Rather than just hit the remote control button and go back to something more palatable, I decided to take action follow a link in a email to FR, and there it was.
The whiney baby in the middle of the "official seal of the democrat party", The SORE LOOSERMAN pictures, Registered@AOL, the works ! I couldn't believe that there were so many other people who felt the same as me!
So I got involved then, I saw pictures of people all across the country, big towns and small, demonstrating against Al Gore. Even a crowd outside Al Gore house!
and even went to a rally in Milwaukee WI during the recount (something I was sure was beneath contempt for any respectable conservative) and saw other people with freerepublic.com on their signs. It demonstrated that people REALLY COULD make a differance.
Since then, I have a stronger understanding of the value of life argument that's behind the right to life (thank you Alan Keyes), a deeper comprehention of how the 2nd amendment is linked with the distrobution of power (power to the people), a new apreceation for our founding fathers, the sacrafices they've made and the philosophers and prognosticators that influenced their thinking (John Locke, Federlist papers), a better understand of Atlas Strugged than I could ever dream, and a passion for a smaller government dedicated to the mandate granted to it in the constitution.
Before FR, I would listen to liberals weave stories about new and interesting ways to spend my money, and sat idoly by, in quiet frustration with little to offer to refute them. Now, I engage.
Right now, per Google, there are some 2,590 links to the FR main page. There are about 36,000 links to whitehouse.gov, (I mention this for comparison purposes) and about 2,780 to a certain pro-demoncrap site that won't be named.
So, we really could do a bit better....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.