The owner/author of the PatriotandLiberty essay will not accuse you of blog pimping.
I hope you do not actually think I am referring to the owner/author of the PatriotandLiberty accusing you of that, but by readers (plural). Rather than making FR a servant for blogs by posting a sentence or two and requiring going to the linked page to see if it is worth spending time on, then in consideration of readers and of Free Republic in which you can see 250 articles per page with a 100 word lead (https://freerepublic.com/perl/settings page), and normally with no less than 300 word excerpt (or excerpts of excerpt) for the whole post of the properly attributed and linked article, then in the interest of readers and FR one should take the time to provide the main substance in excerpts. Thus one can see if such is worth taking the time to read the whole article by following the link.
This would not necessarily result in less of the latter, since posting a sentence or two can simply be ignored as not indicating the article of worth reading, versus a 100 word excerpt on the article page or the 300 word excerpt of the post itself (or about 10% as per Fair Use allowance). See Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints for more on this, which begins with "These sites must be excerpted and linked only [300 words or less]:" Some sites only allow a link.
And the fact that (unlike PatriotandLiberty) most blogs and sites are heavily commercialized (up to 500 network requests in Gateway Pundit, vs. 3 for FR) then that is also another reason to provide the substance of them.
Pasting your preview on a word counter page such as https://wordcounter.net/ can enable you to obtain the maximum.
See An exhortation to those who post thread for more. This would help FR to remain overall the best conservative new aggregator, if not without any faults and a few desires features.