Sound corny? Perhaps, but I challenge anyone to refute that statement. Think about it, this is a clearinghouse of info, if it involves politics, it passes through here. The dynamics of 50,000+(or whatever the number is) patriots, some of the wisest and savviest persons alive, insure all significant bodies of thought are revealed, addressed, analyzed, or exposed. In effect, FR is to conservatism(and national and world politics in extension) what the Left Bank was to the Literati a century before. "The Right Bank of the Sane", if you will.
As much as I love and appreciate Rush Limbaugh's show, I can make do without him. I'd have a much more difficult time giving up FR, it is to political efficiency what the computer was to scientists. Its hard to imagine life without FR, would be like getting rid of your air conditioner, refrigerator, and electricity.
If money is a problem, please go to some sort of pay system. Maybe $12 a year(a measly dollar a month), keeping at least half the registered users should bring in $300K, and I bet you'd get at least 35,000 to start with. Any freeloader who can't recognized the extreme value of this site might be doing us a favor by opting out, I'm not sure someone with such lack of judgement would really have anything meaningful to contribute(other than perhaps breaking news that the trailer down the street was hit by a tornado).
So yes, this site is certainly valuable to the point of being near indispensible, a cornerstone of my continuing education. Thankyou Jim Robinson, your creation has placed you in the company of Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Bill Gates, and Henry Ford.