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!
Your type of contrariness is not lively or polite discussion.
It’s more like a horse fly biting for fun, and beathing around the bush as to your real POV.
You’re either with us, or you’re a’gin us!
I was invited to the new RINO site. PUH-LEEZE! I didn’t even respond.
I LOVE FR. I love the true Patriot posters and I love what FR stands for. It’s just ‘all about the Love’ with me tonight, LOL!
Love of God, Love of Country, Love of Family, Love of our Constitution, Love of Values, Love of Guns.
That about covers it. :)
Thanks again for all you do for us, Mr. Robinson; I’ll keep those monthly checks a’ comin’!
I appreciate all you do, Jim. FR has my support.
My two cents. Great job.
I lurked for awhile, and enjoyed the "no-advertising" on the site!
I really found the information from fellow freepers here the most helpful when the war was young. Plus "Kathy in Alaska" and the "canteen" did a superb job, and continue to do so now!
All I need to do is ask a question, and sure enough some freeper will have an answer. I am amazed at how educated and informed your subcribers are! Almost all are a valuable asset. I see onyx on almost constantly! She is a Freep-a-holic! She does a LOT of lifting for FR! Bless her!
FR is a major part of my life, (especially since the son is headed out for tour #4 to Afghan.), and just wanted to say thanks to you and your family for bringing it to me.
. Just telling you how I feel...nothing more
Keep up the good work and keep weeding out the riff-raff!
Now that deserves a standing ovation Mr. Robinson. Thank you for such clarity....”let them go” does have a nice ring to it.... ..they’ll be others coming on board along the way.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We Have a Winner!!
Post of the Day!!!
Congratulations !
Hehe... I stick to apples with deer, and the occasional slice of bread... You should see the pictures I took at my moms house, they come right up on the back porch, and momma deer give birth inthe yard. Its AWESOME. Saw a 6 point White Tail buck when I was there last. Then there are the Turkeys, they are HUGE. 30-40 pounders, and they are STUNNINGLY beautiful. And the squirrels, both brown and Grey. Awesome place. But no coffee for them!
Buuump!
Bump!
Bump!
I heard that rant. Good rant!
LOLOL!
And we all have Jim Thompson to thank for the success of this site!
LOL.
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