Posted on 07/27/2012 3:37:16 PM PDT by Signalman
John Adams was subject to being literally hanged, drawn, and quartered if the British caught him. He was fighting against an active totalitarian tyrant that was killing people.
You need to moderate your melodrama.
/johnny
Troll harder.
IOW, Ted Cruz isn't conservative enough for you, either? Who do you think should inherit Kay Baily Hutchison's seat? Someone more conservative than she (but not conservative enough for you) or someone less conservative?
IOW, you didn't even read the definition provided for you?
Weak, weak sauce.
Well, the only reason you’d say that is you’re a commie sleeper agent. /s, for those in Rio Vista
I know... I know. Makes no damned sense to me, either. ;)
He turned nine a week after the Declaration was published. When he was only eight, he witnessed the fires of Charlestown and the cannons of the Battle of Bunker Hill with his mother on a hill near their home in Quincy.
You need to moderate your melodrama.
Speaking of melodrama, I doubt King George's boys were quite evil enough to hang, draw, and quarter children.
/johnny
What? That a handful of prominent conservative endorsers constitute a populum, and therefore citing their endorsement as evidence of conservatism is some sort of fallacious argument? LOL! It is what it is.
LOL! It is what it is.
"No," in other words. Gotcha.
Dismissed.
The quote to which Tennessee Nana alludes in #325, Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost
, is attributed to John Quincy Adams, John Adams's son. JQA was born on July 11, 1767.
most people(a populum, in other words, aka the sheeple) knew the Earth was the center of the universe.
What I did was cite some conservative endorsers as evidence Ted Cruz is conservative. That may or may not be a good argument. But it's absurd to call it an argumentum ad populum.
Makes no damned sense to me, either. ;)
***Of course it makes sense — their purpose is to sow discord among conservatives. In this case they do not even deny it.
I simply don’t understand why it is allowed. That’s what does not make sense. Does JimRob REALLY know that he’s accused of being a commie sleeper agent?
There’s a certain point where the rhetoric crosses the line and a zot is the only proper thing to do. Conservatism is being damaged by these people, deliberately.
what I would expect from a commie sleeper agent.
***JimRob, you’re a “commie sleeper agent”. I don’t understand why you allow this kind of rhetoric on FR in support of a librul candidate.
reasons why we must vote Obama out of office:
1. In his 2nd term, the gloves will come off and Obama will truly become Obamugavez
2. In his 2nd term, given the opportunity, Obama will appoint Eric Holder to the Supreme Court
3. In his 2nd term, Obama will accelerate the process of marginalizing both the Supreme Court and Congress and concentrating all political power in America in the executive agencies, such as the EPA, which will increasingly subject Americans to Rule by Fiat, rather than Rule of Law.
4. In his 2nd term Obama will accelerate his tear-down of the American defense establishment and effectively remove America from the world stage (a promise he’s already basically made to the Russians)
5. In his 2nd term, Obama will sign a deal with the Arabs to sell Israel down the river
6. In his 2nd term, Obama will take the gloves off on Global Warming and basically shut down what’s left of the US economy in order to make the very worst of the EnviroNazis happy.
7. In his 2nd term, Obama will step up his active, covert support for street gangs, flash mobs and New Black Panther voter intimidation, with the goal of staging and inciting civil unrest and marginalizing any kind of spontaneous dissent.
8. In his 2nd term, Obama will accelerate the process of ceding US sovereignty to the UN on all matters, particularly those involving the environment and gun control.
John Q was the son...
We'll see about that. Sorry he's apparently not pure enough for you, but you just want to risk losing this election so you can feel good about yourself.
If I were voting in Texas, I would vote for Cruz next Tuesday. And, if Cruz loses, I would vote for Dewhurst in November. Because we need a Republican senate. Period.
How would you vote? Losertarian? Stay home?
I mentioned JQA because in #313 you had said...
“Principles in the voting booth are for children!”
If you also want to win in November, but you don't want to support the GOP nominee, then you need a credible alternative plan. Or else you are just aiding the enemy. This election needs to be a wave
election, because that is what it will take to roll back the damage Obama has caused.
“Principles in the voting booth are for children!”
So you did. And I found the quote: "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
But I hesitate to believe that JQA, if he were alive today, would vote third party or stay home and throw the election to Barack Obama just because the guy at the top of the ticket lacks deep conservative principles. He'd recognize that the opponent has deep Marxist anti-American convictions, and he'd hold his nose and vote accordingly.
Actually JQA woulod disagree strongly with the liberal politics of Wee Willie...
and I doubt that JQA would betray his own conscience and principles to vote for a Jacksonian...
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