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To: Fantasywriter
All you are standing up for is the right of persons w foreign allegiances to occupy the highest office of the land & use it to destroy the Republic. Nothing noble about it, and it’s a v weird mindset that imagines otherwise.

No, I am standing up for the truth. Plain and simple.

I was thinking about this yesterday. I fully believe that some people here, whether philosophically or not, whether consciously or unconsciously, have decided that the truth really doesn't matter.

It seems to me that the philosophy is that politics is "war," and propaganda is a perfectly legitimate tactic. So they are prepared to say anything, true or not, if they think it "furthers their cause." This is a philosophy of the end "justifying" the means.

That's not my philosophy. To me, telling the truth is a conservative value. And engaging in deliberate propaganda is wrong.

And to me, if someone is misrepresenting what the Founders and Framers said, that's not a conservative position.

489 posted on 03/28/2013 6:51:52 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: Jeff Winston

You are a v sad person to watch. You have bought hook, line & sinker into the modern liberal mindset, & you cannot imagine the Framers not thinking the exact same way. You project your views onto them, & nothing will ever dissuade you from the error you’ve fallen prey to. It is v sad to see.

Meanwhile Obama, the perfect POTUS by your way of thinking, is destroying the USA for all of time. Traditional America is already gone & it’s not coming back. You diddle around in your fallacy ridden sandbox, either oblivious to or in agreement w the devastation Obama is wreaking. It’s straight out of the Theater of the Absurd.


491 posted on 03/28/2013 7:11:01 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Jeff Winston
I fully believe that some people here, whether philosophically or not, whether consciously or unconsciously, have decided that the truth really doesn't matter.
It seems to me that the philosophy is that politics is "war," and propaganda is a perfectly legitimate tactic. So they are prepared to say anything, true or not, if they think it "furthers their cause.

I've thought that for a while, too. There are two sides engaged in a bitter battle for the future of this country, that's true. But some people's analysis stops at "which side are you on?" and so long as you're on the "right" side, whatever you do or say is justified. And that leads to this obsession with labeling anyone who disagrees with them, about anything, as being "on the other side." This was never my idea of conservatism.

498 posted on 03/28/2013 7:32:37 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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