It’s much more like this bro... I’ve learned a very long time ago that when I and someone else have political differences, there’s not much point in arguing. I won’t convince them, and they won’t convince me. Nuances and personal perceptions of events will always triumph, on both sides.
I don’t bother arguing with liberals. No point. I just yell EFF YOU and move on, with them. With people who are closer to my political stances, but have different candidates — I won’t argue with them either. I won’t yell EFF YOU with those folk because they are closer to my stance, no point in truly alienating one of those. I might play with them a little, as I did with you, but in most cases, when the candidate is voted upon, we will likely realign. (There is one Freeper who has been so evil in his declarations, that I will not ever realign with him, but that is a very severe exception).
My main contribution to the debate is to write and post editorials. I might refuse, in most cases, to get involved in arguments... .for the reasons I posted above.
There’s a slight change in my usual, this particular time, for I was unaware of Trump’s rather aggressive comments. Those need to be addressed in a coming rewrite that will appear on this thread. I also need to correct several grammar and sentence-construction issues. So, for the fellow Gondring, who called me on it privately and politely, he made a small difference. The other fellow, DrewsDad (certainly aligned with DrewsMom), started out okay then got rude. I ain’t screwin with him for that alone, but there is also the fact that he and Mom are extreme TDS’ers. No point in engaging them whatsoever.
To your point about the use of ‘but’, in standard grammar, you are correct. In politics, however, ‘but’ is often used to use the first clause as a deceitful cover for advancing the true message in the second clause. It’s something I’ve observed in politics for decades and certainly is not particular to Cruz. Most everyone does it. Yes, even Trump.
I’m co-pinging Gondring for a tip-of-the-hat for his polite engagement and to inform him that his approach made a difference in the rewrite of this editorial, and I’m pinging DrewsDad because I mentioned him. In the latter ping, I’m not terribly interested in engaging with him, and will likely ignore his comments. Not much point, with that one.
My wife is actually drewsmom who registered, but either never posted or posted before the FR data was lost. I have no association with DrewsMum other than some FR poster once alerting me on a Hurricane Ike thread that she was pregnant.
As far as your post condemning Cruz, I guess we'll have to disagree as you said. It's not his obligation to apologize for Trump. If you want him to call out the leftists protesters, he did on Sunday's Meet the Press:
Well, let's be clear. Listen, the protesters have no right to engage in violence. They have no right to threaten violence. And these protesters, whether it's Black Lives Matter or Bernie Sanders protesters who are coming in just trying to shout down any speaker, that's not free speech. The First Amendment gives you a right to speak, but it doesn't give you a right to silence others. So the protesters are behaving abusively and wrong. But, at the end of the day in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top. And it is not beneficial when you have a presidential candidate like Donald Trump telling his supporters, "Punch that guy in the face."
I got word from another Freeper that I was mentioned, yet not pinged?
So anyone who disagrees with you is a TDSer?
Lol.