Your “present” vote is noted.
Unfortunately, Free Republic is filled with arrogant asses who assume to judge another mans character and intentions based on some contrived scenario that in no way reflects reality. I believe you’ve been conversing with one.
Senator Cruz hasn’t announced his intention to pursue the office of President, so let the purging of heritics begin at once.
Every hill must be died upon. Discretion is for women and Democrats.
Thank you for this reminder. I’ve come to have a great deal of disdain for “expediency” after living in and cleaning up its messes. If only we had hindsight’s 20/20 vision in the “Before” picture or heeded the warnings that gave us our ideals, commandments and Constitution.
What are the reasons for having the highest standards? What are the lessons that lead to them? All forgotten for expediency in a crisis let not go to waste, which invariably leads to the “unanticipated” “unexpected” unintended consequences.
RegulatorCountry: Recall the enthusiasm with which the creation of DHS was greeted by Republicans, because it was incepted under a Republican. (One of many alphabet agencies they’ve given us.)
Constitution 123: Just like the founders avoided making slavery a big issue prior and during the adoption of the constitution, for the good of our country we must follow their example and do the same with the eligibility issue.
I’m not so sure that I would have done either today, knowing what I know now. Regarding the slavery compromise, has any one issue been a greater source for dissention and division than slavery?
Sorta violates the bill of rights right off the bat. No wonder we’ve had to suffer our civil wars, hot and cold, on our way to living here in an ever growing police state.
Weakening your definitions and lowering your standards to fight for your principles is a worldly choice for those with claim to a higher path and we humans rationalize such things as we feel the need to, blissfully ignoring or ignorant of how it is being used against us.
Republicans of the formerly frugal, now big spending Republican party, the party of Nixon, together with the Constitution lovin’ TEA party, are now going to run a guy born in Canada to a Cuban father as a natural born American citizen?
I’m sure the demonrats won’t notice or use that against you, as you rationalize your exceptions to your principles in order to fight for your principles and the expediency of “Ted Cruz for President!” (I can’t help but notice that you sure have a lot riding on a cult of personality gambit.)
I admit to having a great fascination about this latest change in our greater lesson plan, once the shock wore off. If I wanted to write a doctoral thesis, there is enough here on this and other recent threads for several disciplines of study. Life in America now feels like a closed room, group psychology experiment and I’ve been curious to see who is running it on the earthly side.
The other side has gotten you to say obama being born in Kenya makes him a NBC and they haven’t given up anything to do it. By your admission, you’ve left people like LTC Terry Lakin, whose actions upheld his oath, to die in the field. What you lose with this admission will be difficult to get back, if not impossible. Fascinating, now that the shock has worn off and I didn't see it coming with some who post here.
For the record, mine is just an observation, not a judgment. Fate will take care of that part with the usual unanticipated, unexpected and unintended consequences.
In the spirit of the game, I choose “Black”.