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To: papertyger
Only when you continually badger with questions that don't yield the predetermined answers you want.

Actually, I think i've only asked one question. (Does anyone have an example of Ted Cruz lying about something?)

So far, all the responses i've seen are lies about Cruz lying. Haven't seen an actual, true, bonified example of Cruz lying. People keep repeating that he is, but they don't seem to have any actual proof.

Therefore, I'm thinking they are basing their own opinions on the fact that the accusation has been repeated so many times, it must therefore be true. You know, the Joseph Goebbels methodology of persuading people. (Repetition.)

You're like teenagers perpetually mewling "you don't understand" to their parents.

More like a Parent listening to teenagers saying, "but you don't understand! Cruz is lying, because everyone knows that he is a liar! Why can't you grasp the fact that because everyone knows it, it is therefore true? You just don't understand."

We understand perfectly: we just don't AGREE.

I don't know who you are, but i'm pretty sure the "You don't understand" theory is valid for you. Anyone who understands stuff doesn't start off their argument with "butthurt" this or that.

That is the sign of a Juvenile thinker, and not someone really up for a debate.

It's easy to throw out snark or accusations, it's quite another thing to lay out objective proof and a rational chain of logic to persuade. Generally the kids do the former, and the adults do the later.

Just so you know.

39 posted on 05/04/2016 9:22:22 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
It's easy to throw out snark or accusations, it's quite another thing to lay out objective proof and a rational chain of logic to persuade. Generally the kids do the former, and the adults do the later.

It is also quite easy for an unethical advocate to conflate the lack of dispositive evidence, particularly in the presence of plausible deniability, with innocence.

Certainly, hanging ones hat on the lack of such formal distinctions, particularly in such an informal setting as this, is of questionable virtue.

Surely you are aware of issues such as the citizenship controversy, Senator Cruz voting record and the questionable rationale justifying some of those votes, so I have to look on your "example of Cruz lying" standard with somewhat less than full confidence in your candor.

Furthermore, the facile and demonstrably dis provable manner with which you bundle and dismiss critics of Senator Cruz's credibility (not to mention your flagrant violation of Godwin's Law ;o), simply does not fit the character of the members of FreeRepublic. While you are perfectly justified in maintaining no one has proven the Senator to have lied, you can NOT prove his critics are wrong.

40 posted on 05/04/2016 4:33:46 PM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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