A First Big Week For FrumForum.com

We have just wrapped up an exhilarating first week here at FrumForum.com

Between our launch Tuesday morning and the end of the day Friday, we have accumulated a total of nearly 60,000 unique visitors. We are hoping all of them – you! – will return regularly.

We have been honored by blogposts by people who have served at the highest levels of government. Also, by the kind of people not often heard from in the blogosphere, including a Teach for America volunteer and a recently retired Green Beret.

Our reporter Moira Bagley has covered two important stories. One pointed out that Barack Obama resigned his Senate seat far earlier than any senator elected to executive office dating all the way back to John F. Kennedy – a decision that had the effect of shutting down any Senate ethics inquiry into the financial assistance he received from convicted felon Tony Rezko. The other discovered the whereabouts of the costly wardrobe purchased by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin – and returned by her to the Republican National Committee.

We have opened conversations on subjects essential to the renewal of the Republican party from health care to the emerging alliance with India. These and subjects like them are the basis for a Republican comeback in the years ahead – and we'll keep them accessible with links in our “Right Now” feature in the upper right hand corner.

And we have opened the conversation too about the need for reform of our internal Republican institutions.

I know we’ve stirred some controversy this week. We’re not afraid to do that, and we’ll be doing it more in the future. But our goal is constructive – not only to speak to the dwindling number of people who identify as conservatives and Republicans now, but to build a political movement and a political party that can appeal to a true national majority for the years ahead.

Next week will be even more exciting – and we hope you will make time to return, to comment, and to forward the pieces that interest you to a wide and growing community that can form the basis of an enlarged and revitalized Republican majority.