Free Republic itself is also a tool. The issue is that it needs someone to generate a key search word for the post. I try to think of something that I will remember when I’ve posted something I want to refer to later on on. For example there is a great political ad with the Devil went to Georgia as the background music so I added DevilGeorgia as a keyword to find that video in a Free Republic search.
Not so good, since admin has pulled many many threads.
Free Republic search engine is useless. I can never get it to work.