[Democratic-Republican]

FYI Cruzers will deny any argument you make or assemble, they will accept any support or affirmation from any source ...

I see what you mean. This one here, Yosemitest, is a marvel to behold. He is actually the first one at FreeRepublic I have dealt with first hand, I mean on substantive Constitutional issues ( I try to avoid dogmatic religious threads ). He is completely impervious to all objective facts and I'm starting to wonder if Levin and Rush are this thick as well. Apparently to them ( I say apparently because I cannot get one single straight answer from this artful dodger ) citizen is now actually equal to natural born citizen, and even James Madison's own explanation cannot penetrate this new post-American religion.

This is how America will end, by being sold out to anti-American globalist internationalists who inexplicably believe they are conservatives. Such people ( and including Rush and Levin ) do not even realize that taking "natural born" out of natural born citizen is a direct attack on our sovereignty, not to mention our entire friggin history. Did you know that Winston Churchill actually qualified as NBC!

This particular zealot's style ( copy/paste wall-of-text ) reminds me exactly of some of those I've fought with at DUmmyland, DailyKaos and HuffPost over the Second Amendment. It is stunning and illustrative at the same time. Over there in enemy territory they are religious socialists and the Second Amendment is simply invalid because they believe it to be so. No words from any Founder makes a lick of difference. Somehow Cruz has attracted a similarly religious collection of zealots that will stoop so low that the actual words of our Founders are meaningless to them.

I've always like Ted Cruz but the anti-Constitutional stink from many of his supporters will rub off and onto him. It cannot be avoided. ~sigh~ I'm seriously beginning to root for his destruction in the primaries now, because when your lemmings decide to piss on my neck and tell me its raining then I can't help but be profoundly affected by it.

gg188, thanks for the comment and tipoff. It took a while but I'm beginning to understand.

[Yosemitest]

I noticed YOU REFUSE to address the FACTS and the PROOF, backed up through the LINKS provided. Rather than debate with FACTS, you retort through PROJECTION.
That ALONE says a lot about the THEORIES you offer, and WHY they should NOT BE believed!

YOU demonstrate that YOU ARE "completely impervious to all objective facts".
YOU DENY ALL the LINKED writers, MANY WITH SUPREME COURT EXPERIENCE, who PROVE BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, that YOU ARE WRONG about TED CRUZ's qualifications as a Presidential Candidate!
YOU dodge EVERY CONSTITUTION LINK GIVEN.
YOU dodge every FOUNDING FATHER who REBUKES your THEORY !
And your attitude towards Rush, and Mark Levin, and your refusal to even address Thomas Sowell, CLEARLY REVEALS YOUR POLITICS.
You have revealed YOURSELF as just exactly WHO YOU REALLY ARE !


Here's something to consider about liberals, and conservatives.

The liberal's problem is psychological projection.

Liberals do this all the time.
Here's a definition.
Freudian Projection

The following is a collection of definitions of projection from orthodox psychology texts.
In this system the distinct mechanism of projecting own unconscious or undesirable characteristics onto an opponent is called Freudian Projection.

• "A defense mechanism in which the individual attributes to other people impulses and traits that he himself has but cannot accept.
  It is especially likely to occur when the person lacks insight into his own impulses and traits."
  
  
• "The externalisation of internal unconscious wishes, desires or emotions on to other people.
  So, for example, someone who feels subconsciously that they have a powerful latent homosexual drive may not acknowledge this consciously, but it may show in their readiness to suspect others of being homosexual."
  
  
• "Attributing one's own undesirable traits to other people or agencies, e.g., an aggressive man accuses other people of being hostile."
  
  
• "The individual perceives in others the motive he denies having himself.
  Thus the cheat is sure that everyone else is dishonest.
  The would-be adulterer accuses his wife of infidelity."
  
  
• "People attribute their own undesirable traits onto others.
  An individual who unconsciously recognises his or her aggressive tendencies may then see other people acting in an excessively aggressive way."
  
  
• "Projection is the opposite defence mechanism to identification.
  We project our own unpleasant feelings onto someone else and blame them for having thoughts that we really have."

And here's a problem with honest people.

(General) Projection

Here projection is assuming that others act or perceive similarly – according to this definition it is not necessary for a projected trait to be undesirable or unconscious.
Projection is probably inherent in social animals and the single most important psychological mechanism.
The following are given as examples:

1. Individual A assumes that B sees the colour red as he does, until informed that B is colour-blind;
   
   
2. Someone who never lies is easy to deceive because he projects his truthfulness onto others, assuming that others are honest also;
   
   
3. ‘It takes one to know one’;
   
   
4. An inept con-man fears that others are trying to cheat him, signals his fear and alerts others;
   
   
5. (Freudian) An individual who possesses malicious characteristics, but who is unwilling to perceive himself as a protagonist, convinces himself that his opponent feels and would act the same way.

Liberals constantly project their own vile values onto conservatives, intentionally or unintentionally,
and they need to called on it, shamed on it, and laughed at to scorn, when they do it.

Ponder THAT for a long period of time !

[GBA]

This post is one of the best I've read on Free Republic and I am grateful to you for your thinking out loud.

You have followed the maze successfully and wound up right back where you started from, true, but you are better for your hike through the valley of the dead.

I agree with you that the "copy/paste wall-of-text" is that internet persona's best and only defense. Giving credit where due, it is an effective technique for breaking up the flow of thought in a thread and getting readers to move on instead of reading more.

Such personas, whether live or internet, tend to use emotion instead of logic for justification. Your words are not for them, but are for the rest who read and follow along unnoticed.

No matter how well you present the material or digitally perfect your logic, it won't be heard and truth will NOT be recognized once emotion and its justifications get in the way.

Shifting perspective, I find both the psychology involved and the times the most fascinating aspects of what is being done to US from within, both within the nation, but more importantly within our heads and hearts.

I understand history a bit better now while observing how so many are made "useful" when placed in the "right" situation and give the appropriate justifications.

As it is now, I am fascinated with trying to figure out if our tearing down the old standards and this fundamental transformation by redefinition just evolved naturally or was it made to?

The recurring theme for these times:

"it had been said that in these times, many would lose the sense of the Divine and would live in their own way, and would be unable to tell good from evil;"

"It's on." Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.