Sam's Reply, "Exactly. And your excellent proposal to get 5,000 Freepers to donate at least $5 a month is scaring the hell out of the scumbags who want to drag us down. They know how powerful an organization we can become with a little cash flow. That is why they will come here to circle, yip and bite at this excellent idea of recognizing those Freepers who care enough to make the monthly donations. They don't want to see a flood of people donating to this site, which is what will happen when we start recognizing the Freepers who contribute and put some peer pressure on those who don't. Because if we can get every Freeper donating at least $5 a month...well, you do the math. Let's just say it puts us in major media territory. We'll be doing our own goddamned cable news channel before long. FNN - Freeper News Network. Now doesn't that send shivers up your spine!"
You are starting to scare me as you continue to read my mind on this issue!
We both know that a strong and financially secure Free Republic is the worst nightmare of the left wingers and day time terror! This is why we see their disruptors trying to weaken and destroy FR like the old CNS and other sites they have destroyed! They disrupt, lie, insult, crash the systems with bs and drive away the conservatives. Some are blatant! Some pretend to be conservatives. Their goals are the same like the seminar callers to Rush and other conservative talk shows. Their goals are to disrupt and destroy any conservative site like Free Republic!
This is why I like your idea of a single symbol that would denote that the Freeper is a monthly donator of at least $5/month. As you noted in a previous message, that symbol would show that they care enough to donate monthly! I doubt that very many disruptors would pay to disrupt! If they did, at least Jim and John would have $5 a month for putting up with them!
Your last sentence is worth repeating as it must send chills up the spines of the disruptors, a bad chill: "We'll be doing our own goddamned cable news channel before long. FNN - Freeper News Network. Now doesn't that send shivers up your spine! Yeah, except our shivers would be the good ones!