Posted on 01/19/2011 10:00:05 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 01/19/2011 10:21:38 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
I'm placing this in breaking news, because there have been several breaking news complaint threads recently. Guess there are a lot of people not understanding the facts about FR, or what we stand for, where we're going, etc.
First of all, who reads FR and how many accounts do we have? I honestly have no idea and the exact number does not concern me. We currently have over 369,000 registered accounts on FR, but as someone pointed out yesterday, not all of them are active and I have no idea how many are active.
Many years ago we had less than 30,000 accounts registered. Then we hit a hundred thousand, a hundred fifty thousand, then two hundred thousand and three or four years ago we approached and went over 300,000. Every few years as we hit a major milestone in registered accounts, I updated our home page with the current number of accounts on FR. I'll probably do it again after we go over 400,000, then 500,000, etc, and maybe I won't. The number of registered accounts doesn't really mean much. And our growth in the last few years has tapered off anyway for various reasons.
Who actually reads FR? Again, we have no idea, but there are hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of readers. All kinds of people read FR. News hounds, liberals, conservatives, politicians, talk show hosts, religious types, atheists, you and me brother and everyone in between. We serve over 1,000,000 pageviews per day.
So why has our growth tapered off? Well, probably the primary reason is we've narrowed our point of view lately as we've moved away from just talking about the issues and have actually started becoming constitutional activists.
The time for talking is over. Now we need to walk the walk. Our focus has become closer to working on our primary goal which is a return to constitutionally limited government and a full restoration of our God-given unalienable rights.
We can't do that by being big tent, all things to all people, non-principled, two-talking politicians. If we are truly interested in advancing our traditional conservative pro-God, pro-family, pro-life, pro-country, pro-liberty principles and positions then we must reject the politicians and people supporting the other way.
As an organization, we cannot be both for and against homosexuality, abortion, big government, border and national security, etc. I don't know about others, but if we must choose, I choose to be on the right side of each and every issue. Why should FR use its limited resources to allow liberals, homosexualists, abortionists, big spenders, big taxers, big government solutions advocates, gun grabbers, pacifists, isolationists, environmentalists, open-borders lobbyists, etc, ply their trade on FR? Well, more and more lately, we don't. And, apparently, that has pissed off a lot of big tent, true blue RINO types and the herd is stampeding. Let them go.
We who share our common traditional conservative principles, values and goals will be better off in the long run. We need to build on our strengths and attract more traditional conservatives to our viewpoints than to water down and weaken our own. It just doesn't make sense to me to support politicians like Giuliani, Romney, Gingrich, et al, who have RINO/liberal track records. It doesn't make sense to allow abortionists, homosexualists, gun-grabbers, big-government solutionists, etc, to have free rein on FR to target and lambast us daily with their repugnant bile. Let them go.
FR will continue on the traditional God, family, country, life and liberty path. If it means fewer accounts or less growth, so be it. If it means we receive fewer in donations, so be it. We will adapt, improvise and overcome and I believe prosper (God willing) in the long run. And, hopefully, someday we can say that we helped restore our beloved republic and our Liberty!
Read your freepmail, onyx.
:-)
DITTO!!
Okay and thank you!
If they get banned, it’s JimRob doing the fighting.
THANK YOU JimRob! This has been a long time coming and I’m glad to see it.
JC
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Yes, technically I am the father of the zombie deer due to them becoming that way because of my coffee, but it was Humblegunner who first thought, “Hunh, what happens if I feed this yak barf that D-sheare calls coffee to those deer?”
And a new breed of horror was unleashed.
And it’s yours free just for 19.95 plus shipping and handling!
[Shipper not responsible for missing deliverymen in transit due to zombie deer attack...]
A website divided cannot stand!
Weed out the whinners as they poke their heads up.
Sorry about your asthma. Seriously.
We are, believe it or not, on the same side, and this discussion is exactly what I love about Free Republic. We need to talk about these things, not what is right and wrong, but about government’s role and how to fight the battle.
A few replies to your numbered points:
1) You contradict yourself. You say that “it is those pushing the homo agenda who have been using government,” yet you claim to be a conservative, and you’re wanting the government involved. Inconsistent, and it won’t work. Just gives them a platform for their sob stories and to get public sympathy.
4) Their agenda has been pushed by some libs in the government, but much more by the entertainment industry, which has glamorized and normalized perversity through depiction in TV and movies. Now it’s mainstream. Now society depicts you as a bigot if you speak out against homosexuality, which is still perversion.
And I never said, nor implied, that conservatives should “shut up, not try to do anything via government” etc., etc.
You are seriously over-reacting. And don’t put words in my mouth.
You are a VERY contrary poster.
Well said. Bravo!
Thank you, Jim.
WOOT!!!
Thank you for all you do Jim (And John and every one else!!!)!!!!!!! And thank you for representing us with Sarah!!!
>> “Sure you can. They have an FR cheering section. They get banned.” <<
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Wonderful!
But that in no way fights their agenda. Their agenda is not “being on FR,” its being in our faces in every facit of public life, and nothing posted here will hinder that one Iota.
They’re attempting to influence opinion here. That is unacceptable.
Hehe FR was tea party before there was a tea party! ;)
And letting them spew their garbage without debating them is what we should do? Sorry. We fight back! And their agenda most CERTAINLY is infiltrating FR as they have done with CPAC and the Republicans.
WooHoo!
Thank you for this site, Jim and John, and for keeping your priorities straight.
BTTT.
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