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!
Amen and Right on brother!
I love you, Jim (in a manly, non-sexual, respectful sort of way). :)
Burn the “Big tent”.....
Bothers me that we have basically two camps of people, instead of one, who supposedly are on the right side of all issues in their feelings of a Sarah Palin candidacy.
One camp agrees and likes her and feel that of the all the potential candidates out there, she speaks for us, and that she should run for the presidency. That’s the camp I am in.
The other camp may agree with what she says, but find her disaggreable as a candidate. They criticize anything and everything they can about her and find her a weak presidential candidate. Charles Krauthammer is in that camp along with several others that have commented on the thread that is a few print feet below this one.
That IS what he wrote! They're called liberals.
Wow, JimRob, you really are a radical right-wing nut case, aren't you?
Bravi, bravi, bravissimo!
Bump!
Amen!
Thanks Jim, much of my time is on this site, I would trash my computer if it were not for FR, member number 500 and something, don’t know how to look it up.
Does the heart good to see principled people stand by their convictions. So many weasels out there who will say anything to be popular, loved, and powerful, foremost among whom are media types and politicians.
Thanks for keeping FR a beacon of principled freedom as espoused by, and established by, our forefathers by the grace of God!
Thanks
I read FR
comment sometimes
post rarely
but read it, yes
So thanks to you Jim, for the forum
and
Thanks to you, who post and comment,
for information, humor, encouragement
and ....
Jim, I’ve watched you since the old Whitewater days before you started FR. You are as firm to your principles now as you were then. Glad it’s your ship and glad it’s you steering it.
Your point is well-taken. We do need to remind ourselves of what principles for which we stand.
We obviously have disagreements about how to uphold those principles (RINOs, RealPolitik, etc.) but our collective way out of the morass is to fall back to these principles.
FR isn’t for the meek, but yelling loud doesn’t always get the job done.
Just some thoughts for people who label anyone who disagrees with HOW to accomplish our goals as some sort of commie leftist pinko atheist fag.
Except for my opinions, of course. Anyone who disagrees with me is some sort of commie leftist pinko atheist fag.
I cannot imagine a world without FR. This is where I get my news—I don’t watch tv, and listen only to Rush.
Thank you for all you do Mr. Robinson.
Freepers—contribute the keep the site up and running, please. We all need to pay our fair share.
Thank you, JR. I affirm your vision of FR 100 percent.
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 it's 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!
Amen! Thanks for posting this, Jim.
Amen!! I am SO happy FR has chosen to do so. Funny thing is, I stopped just talking and reading about it and instead have become an active Tea Party Patriot.
May God continue blessing you and what I believe, is guiding you to do what is right. I wish I could give more in our FReepathons, but I always make sure I give a little more than I can afford.
FR has become my "newspaper". I wake up 1 hour earlier each morning to get my FR fix and spend at least an hour after work doing the same.
Yes, I get extremely upset when we go down....because I feel lost without it.
If I ever come into a load of money, FR is the 1st on my list to give.
A million pageviews a day is a lot of views. Still out in God’s country using dial-up, my pages view at a slower pace than most. I’m sure I get in a couple dozen a day, anyway. Some days 3 or 4 dozen.
If 2 dozen is the average, then that’s 41,000+ people/accounts a day.
That’s a $2.25 per quarter per person to meet the Freep-a-thon goal.
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