I vote no.
I don't think of my self as either a Democrat or a Republican. (My parents were Democrats, but today's Democratic Party is not "Your father's Party" (not if you're old enough) and it would horrify my mother if she were to vote from anything but past conviction. They've both passed on, so they are probably still voting the straight Democartic ticket.
If I had to lable myself, it woudl be Reform-Progressive. To explain that concisely and thus maybe badly, by "Reform" I mean that a lot of people need to go back, read and understand the "instructions", then follow them. The term "instructions" covers a lot or area here, to include the Constitution and the laws as written, not as someone cares to misuse them. By "progressive" I mean that things change, and sometimes the "instructions" don't cover everything or continue to apply appropriately, so you rewrite, not ignore, them. (Remember I said concisely and badly.)
I agree that liberalism as we know it (not classic liberalism) needs to be destroyed and that liberalism and the Democratic party have become so entwined that the Democratic party has to go, at least as a major player. (As far as I am concerned, it can stick around as a splinter party. That'll give "those" people a place to congregate where they can talk to each other and be watched by the more responsible elements of society. Also, it doesn't hurt to have a few nay sayers around, as aggrivating as that can be.)
But as far as turning FreeRepublic into a Republican Forum, I don't think that's a good idea. We definitely need to support them against the Democrats. And we need to promote incremental change except where we must not or can not. But Jim, if you and your brother start out on a trip from New York to California, and you take me along because I was going to North Dakota, and I share expenses and so forth, I will turn North when we get to Oklahoma (or thereabouts). The fact that we traveled together doesn't make me part of your family.
FreeRepublic needs to travel with the Republicans for a while, but that doesn't mean it needs to become Republican.