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!
Infiltration is their game. It doesn’t work with us on FR. I suppose since you fight them you can very clearly see their agenda but so many miss it.
;-D
I am, indeed, contrary. Avoid me if you don’t want to think.
Healthy, lively, polite discussion is good for all of us. What a wonderful country we live in!
Yes, so they get the zot. Justice of a sort.
But does that diminish their advances in the public arena?
No, it just gives us some symbolic satisfaction (which I agree feels great)
That the double brewed tar you have spoken of in the past?? Hehe. I am considering roasting my own coffee. We have a wholesale bean seller here in town.... Muahahahahahahaha
Did you know, that lighter roasted beans have MORE caffeine in em? True story mate!
Define “public arena”.
That's not debate. That is a personal attack. And there's nothing "polite" about it. You use it often.
>> “And letting them spew their garbage without debating them is what we should do?” <<
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Now why did you have to inject that strawman?
Nothing I said indicated that in any way.
I just don’t wish to pretend that the fun of zotting a friend of faggotry is any more than that, fun.
Exactly why I registered almost 13 years ago. Keep it up Jim and crew!
Yes, that’s the double brewed goo of doom.
I did find a medium roast that was quite anemic though.
And I detect a bad idea being generated.
You’ll have to let me know what the outcome is.
What do you do, check in every three months to make sure that we’re still here? :o)
Schools, churches, broadcast news...
I came to this site when I heard Free Republic broke the farce about Bush's’ National Guard record. Thank you. I enjoy the articles that are posted and I enjoy being able to read articulate dissection of the facts. I do find contrary views and I have from time to time joined in the discussion. There are absolute truths in this world. Any tolerance to truth is not constructive and it is not to be compromised. Thanks Jim. If you've ever been to a Baptist church on Wednesday night you know the preacher is “preaching to the choir”. There you will find those of one accord. So be it!
Thank you.
I have to find the right kind of air popper first. Until then I scheme.... lol And now and then double brew...;)
LOL, I am a fountain of bad ideas.
Just don’t dose any wildlife with the stuff.
We know through testing that deer become psychotic.
>> “And you conveniently ignore that their aim is infiltration” <<
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Another ridiculous strawman!
I did no such thing.
When you premise your argument on someone having said something that they did not, that is a strawman. You’re battling something that is not there to battle.
Ha! I love it!
Thanks for mentioning Congressmam BillyBob; I sure miss him and his spot-on commentary and legal analyses!
JC
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