" I contributed to the SBVFT three times so that they could get their message out."
I contributed twice. Good points.
You may like to know that a person very involved with the Free Republic (I think a board member) played a role with the SB Vets. He is Scott Swett. The SB Vets were very inexperienced in the political game when they started out and he gave them some early tutoring. Though Scott seeks no publicity on this, he is not averse to it either, so I am comfortable mentioning his name. He started a website, I believe it was named Winter Soldier, about 6 mos. before the SB Vet campaign.
I remember it well. Jerome Corsi, the co-author of Unfit for Command (which sold almost a million copies) with John O'Neill, was a Freeper. I attended the SBVFT rally in DC. It was relatively small but enegetic. The SBVFT demonstrated that a small grass roots organization with a message could be influential.