[Dane]

Scallon is right. Free Republic is a large institution, and as with most organs of the Establishment, it is also ideologically bankrupt.

Not a dime's worth of difference between so called Libertarian/Conservatives such as Mr. Fallovita and 60's era liberals.

They both trot out tired old hippie slogans of the 60's.

[ffrancone]

This article might as well have been written by the Washington Post, as part of its 'drive a wedge into the Republican coalition' drive. We need the moderates. They need us. Without both, we are a permanent minority party. With both, we have an opportunity to drive the political center (the independents) to the right. That's what this election was really about.

As to whether FR has any effect in the real world. It's my understanding that the eight young men in Florida in 2000, who prevented the dems from diasppearing into a sealed room with tens of thousands of ballots, were FREEPERS. If the dems had gotten out of the view of cameras with those ballots, Al Gore would be president today. So as I read it, FR saved our country from four years of Al Gore.

Also, check out the FR network if you haven't already. It's in its infancy but has the potential to be a potent political force. www.freepers.org