For the benefit of younger FR posters, I can relate to the days when I tried to post a letter to my local newspaper and most of the time it simply wasn't published. When it was, the editors would leave important points I wanted to make on the cutting room floor. So no one heard the real me. That's changed with the Internet and with the rise of Free Republic - here is a community of people with views like your own so you don't have to wonder anymore if you're the only one who feels and thinks the way you do and you get the opportunity to say what you want without any one cutting it to fit the space of a column or whatever. I apologize for the length of my rant but only because I felt it was necessary to get this point across which is basically that its about time we conservatives have a place at the table of democracy.
And contrary to Algore's assertion we're a Republican National Committee echo chamber, I don't take my cues from the RNC or the President or any one else. I always say what I feel and think is right and I am first and foremost an American and only then am I a Republican. For me, my country comes before my party. For Gore and his fellow Democrats today its all about putting partisan advantage ahead of the former, which is why they wish to shut us up. There was a time in my life when I was proud to have been a liberal and a Democrat. Today if I no longer feel that way and like most Americans have come to see things the way they ought to be, its due in no small part to the fact that its my party and its values that have deserted me, not the other way around.
It's taken some bandwidth to tell the Gorebatross all this but it had to be said for in his criticism of conservative media emerging in this country today, the truth he's apparently incapable of coming to terms with about their phenomenal growth is that its linked not to the American people being puppets of the RNC or following orders from the Bush White House, but simply as a consequence of the fact the New Media is finally reflecting what people want to learn and hear. No wonder Algore has lost it and his inability to comprehend how the country's changing is exactly why he will never be President. Hey Al, deal with it.