[nathanbedford]

I agree with your admiration of Ted Cruz, in fact I have long poasted that he looks now to be our best potential candidate for 2016.

I also agree that the time is not now ripe to argue among ourselves concerning his eligibility.

However I vehemently disagree with your recommendations to self censor our views and to self censor what we choose to post. So long as we stay within the general guidelines outlined by Jim Robinson, we should expand our horizons as widely as possible. If we are to know what the enemy is up to and marshal our arguments on behalf of conservatism, we simply have to expose ourselves to these articles and test our opinions in the crucible of FreeRepublic.

I believe the tendency to ban and to jot is regrettably far overdone and in the long run extremely unhealthy for the premier voice of conservatism. We decry the censorship from the left in our universities but want to practice the same thing ourselves. It is bad in both places.

[Norm Lenhart]

The thing is, if we don’t settle this now and we follow the advice given, then the issue will be front and center come election time IF he runs.

We were told LAST TIME by many people in many articles like this that the time to settle these things id before or in the primary. Now we are being told, to, as Andrew Kalven so succinctly put it, just shut up.

Speaks for itself.

[Lakeshark]

I also agree that the time is not now ripe to argue among ourselves concerning his eligibility.

I agree fully. I disagree that this is a call to "self censorship", I never used that term, it was more a call for self control, like you say "at this time". We have far better things to concern ourselves with.