Jim, there will never come such a time. Ever.
Free Republic isn't simply a gathering place for political conservatives, it has become so much more than that. This website is now a VERY POTENT FORCE to be recken with. No one knows this better than the powers-that-be.
If that were not the case, why on earth would Free Republic be making so many enemies among the establishment?
Free Republic is making the lives miserable, that's why. Both the politicians and the media know they can no long act with impunity.
We're watching them. Closely. And they know it.
As you, yourself, have said repeatedly: The media is today too corrupt, too liberal, too compromise, too "inside" to function any longer as a genuine check on government power, nor as a window on government corruption.
Free Republic has emerged to fill that all-important niche -- and will continue to do so, whether our enemies like it or not, Jim.
To your embittered critics, to those who have stooped to questioned your moral and ethical integrity, I have just four choice words for them: Get a life, already.
Not one of these hypocrits, who are burning with jealously at your roaring success, is fit to even tie your shoes.
Well, that's my two cents, Jim.
God bless you, and God bless Free Republic.
God's best to you and yours.