[cynwoody]

A proper example of an argumentum ad populum would be a Church official in the 1600s arguing that Galileo's heliocentric theory was wrong because 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.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Liar. And a shockingly clumsy and inept liar, to boot.

Post #338. You:

[Romney's] Sarah Palin's guy. He's Rick Santorum's guy. He's Jim Demint's guy. He's Ron and Rand Paul's guy.

Me:

*Yaaaaawwwwwnnnnnnnnn* "In logic, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for 'appeal to the people') is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or most people believe it. In other words, the basic idea of the argument is: 'If many believe so, it is so.'"

Nothing whatsoever in that exchange, re: Cruz. The facts are, to paraphrase a notoriously dishonest online yip-yop, "what they are."

Again: DIS. Missed.