Here’s an off-topic scary thing. When doing what I mentioned we should do, I went to a NARAL pro-choice site ranking Cain on abortion, and they had three links for his positions. The third was supposed to be his 2004 senate campaign, and the actual link took me to the FreeRepublic discussion of his 2004 senate campaign.
So yes, even NARAL uses FreeRepublic as an authoritative resource.
Not sure source is the right word. More like ‘archive’.