Posted on 01/19/2011 10:00:05 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 01/19/2011 10:21:38 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
I'm placing this in breaking news, because there have been several breaking news complaint threads recently. Guess there are a lot of people not understanding the facts about FR, or what we stand for, where we're going, etc.
First of all, who reads FR and how many accounts do we have? I honestly have no idea and the exact number does not concern me. We currently have over 369,000 registered accounts on FR, but as someone pointed out yesterday, not all of them are active and I have no idea how many are active.
Many years ago we had less than 30,000 accounts registered. Then we hit a hundred thousand, a hundred fifty thousand, then two hundred thousand and three or four years ago we approached and went over 300,000. Every few years as we hit a major milestone in registered accounts, I updated our home page with the current number of accounts on FR. I'll probably do it again after we go over 400,000, then 500,000, etc, and maybe I won't. The number of registered accounts doesn't really mean much. And our growth in the last few years has tapered off anyway for various reasons.
Who actually reads FR? Again, we have no idea, but there are hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of readers. All kinds of people read FR. News hounds, liberals, conservatives, politicians, talk show hosts, religious types, atheists, you and me brother and everyone in between. We serve over 1,000,000 pageviews per day.
So why has our growth tapered off? Well, probably the primary reason is we've narrowed our point of view lately as we've moved away from just talking about the issues and have actually started becoming constitutional activists.
The time for talking is over. Now we need to walk the walk. Our focus has become closer to working on our primary goal which is a return to constitutionally limited government and a full restoration of our God-given unalienable rights.
We can't do that by being big tent, all things to all people, non-principled, two-talking politicians. If we are truly interested in advancing our traditional conservative pro-God, pro-family, pro-life, pro-country, pro-liberty principles and positions then we must reject the politicians and people supporting the other way.
As an organization, we cannot be both for and against homosexuality, abortion, big government, border and national security, etc. I don't know about others, but if we must choose, I choose to be on the right side of each and every issue. Why should FR use its limited resources to allow liberals, homosexualists, abortionists, big spenders, big taxers, big government solutions advocates, gun grabbers, pacifists, isolationists, environmentalists, open-borders lobbyists, etc, ply their trade on FR? Well, more and more lately, we don't. And, apparently, that has pissed off a lot of big tent, true blue RINO types and the herd is stampeding. Let them go.
We who share our common traditional conservative principles, values and goals will be better off in the long run. We need to build on our strengths and attract more traditional conservatives to our viewpoints than to water down and weaken our own. It just doesn't make sense to me to support politicians like Giuliani, Romney, Gingrich, et al, who have RINO/liberal track records. It doesn't make sense to allow abortionists, homosexualists, gun-grabbers, big-government solutionists, etc, to have free rein on FR to target and lambast us daily with their repugnant bile. Let them go.
FR will continue on the traditional God, family, country, life and liberty path. If it means fewer accounts or less growth, so be it. If it means we receive fewer in donations, so be it. We will adapt, improvise and overcome and I believe prosper (God willing) in the long run. And, hopefully, someday we can say that we helped restore our beloved republic and our Liberty!
“...choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve...But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:14
One of the first things that attracted me to FR was the conservative, Christian messages (but not conversion type) that you promoted: “pro-God, pro-family, pro-life, pro-country, pro-liberty”-common sense values any God-fearing religion would/should promote.
I choose this day to stick with those who have similar beliefs I do...to the end. If things slow down financially, God will provide, I honestly believe that!
Thank you, JimRob. And God bless America-He’s the only One to save us in the end.
Good on 'ya Jim!
No thanks needed, but thanks! =). I couldn’t live without my FR, literally, lol.
If there is a 12 step program for FR......DON’T TELL ME ABOUT IT!!
Big tent Rino’s have no place here!....this is war for the survival of our nation with hardcore rat bastard leftists. Get on board or get out of the way!
More monthly donors! Buuuump!
Huzzah!
He will be down with that!
May God bless you, wlandsodidwe! You rock!
God Bless you, Jim and thanks for making FR both RINO-free and homo-free.
Thanks for the ping. I am wondering how the Constitutional-eligibility trolls fit into this. Most never post anything pro-conservative or anti-Obama, and that alone raises questions about why they’re here.
If this question has already been addressed and answered, apologies in advance. I just got the ping, and I haven’t read the entire thread. [I did do a search for ‘trolls’, though and didn’t find my question that way.]
As a fellow conservative I hope to be by your side on this amazing journey to bring our country back to the right.
Interesting..a State Of The FR letter. Cool beans.
Awesome picture!!
Wow Jim!
YEAH! What you said!
God bless - and thanks for Free Republic.
bttt
Thank you Jim for making FR possible.
Count me in, Jim!
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