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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!
Yep! ;)
Quite true.
They couldn’t be possibly worse than me!
Papa Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist
Anyone with a brain and a desire to know the truth.
How many accounts on FR?
More than yesterday; less than tomorrow.
What does FR stand for?
A free republic, if we can keep it.
Where is FR going?
God willing, once more into the fray.
Well the birther trolls come in waves whenever the issue is hot.
They tried to keep the issue out of the public venue and failed, its now on Congress’s 10 listed items for investigation by Committee.
As things heat up they will be back.We get to slice and dice then all over again.
Yes, the banning of TROLLs has been renewed, and it proceeeds very steadily, one here, one there.I am grateful for it.
You crack me up. You are the bane of the pro-Obama trolls. Keep up the good work!
You never know, I may be one of them, just working on my creds with consevatives!
Papa bane in the ass!
Amen, Jim. God bless you.
YES! I stand with you Jim!
LOL! Haven't read through the whole thread to see if any have shown up. Probably not. In other threads that Jim has posted about FR's mission I don't remember seeing them.
Ping-a-ling! We need to circle the wagons and support FR!! Please ping your FRiends!
In a similar vein, I wonder about the usefulness of religious caucus threads. All they do is present a single view, in most cases held by a minority, in a format that precludes discussion. My religion defines me. Shouldn’t we rather be discussing and acting on issues rather than illustrating our differences outside of the political?
nail on head and well said.
There is no big tent crap, conservatism is traditional normal families/marriage, border security, strong defense, etc etc etc.
Why those who have a liberal social agenda come on and pretend they’re conservatives is beyond me.
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A Viking Kitty!
Amen!
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