[nathanbedford]

You ask again, "why did you adopt his avatar?" The answer is plainly written at the foot of the "about page" to which you were directed:

… rightly understood, the use of the name and avatar of Nathan Bedford Forrest is to invoke not merely a unique historic figure but a living biblical parable.

There is another more prosaic reason which is also laid down in the middle of the essay which any fair reader will find inarguably relevant to the contributors on this thread who attacked me merely for quoting the words of Donald Trump:

… a man [Nathan Bedford Forrest] with unflinching fortitude to behold, accept, and deal with reality no matter how unpleasant the prospect. There was not an ounce of self-deception in the man. This character trait alone should make every poster on FreeRepublic long to share the avatar and name of Nathan Bedford Forrest especially those Posters who evade unpalatable reality by resort to name-calling, ad hominem attacks, zotting, and just plain old-fashioned hardheadedness.

It is not I who seek to deceive the reader because I find the facts unpleasant, rather it is they who evade unpalatable reality by calling me names, attacking me ad hominem, zoting me when possible with unrestrained, hardheaded evasion of facts and with perversion of reason.

Read the thread and consider whether I have done anything but quote Donald Trump in defense of Ted Cruz who was assailed as no real conservative because he criticized Trump for inciting violence and thereby allegedly siding with paid disruptors. I did not open this argument by denigrating Donald Trump, the haters on this thread have opened and pursued the argument denigrating both Ted Cruz and me. I did not utter the words inciting violence that have provoked such venomous attacks against me, Donald Trump did.

I have never upheld the use of name and avatar with more justice than on this thread.

[Lakeshark]

I did not utter the words inciting violence that have provoked such venomous attacks against me, Donald Trump did.

Good Lord man, get a life. You are one sick puppy. Your hatred of Trump blinds you, and beckons you to say untrue and really stupid things.

You really should stop, you make a bigger fool of yourself with each post. We know you have a need to show yourself superior, the problem is you're not, you're nothing more than a fool that can't see how wrong he is.

Go ahead, why don't you lecture me one more time on why Trump can't win like you did a year ago. That was fun.

We all saw what you did for the last year, and know who you are (a fraud), you'll never be respected here again, and you deserve it.

[sargon]

NB, simply put, you put the worst possible interpretation on anything and everything Donald Trump does. You've done it for 2 years. You've engaged in gratuitous ad hominem attacks against him, have called him every insulting name in the book, and have never repudiated your hateful name-calling.

As such, you've been pegged as incorrigible; you're the resident Trump-hater.

If you displayed any moderation or nuance with respect to your Trump-hatred, you would doubtless never have been zotted, nor earned the reputation you "enjoy".

All the erudition and eloquence in the world can't overcome your pathological hatred for the individual, and consequently it taints every post you make in which he or his actions are the topic.

You've earned your position as the Tokyo Rose of FR.

You've called the man a "charlatan", a "fraud", a "con-man", and not only will you not repudiate such hatred, but you won't even acknowledge that you've engaged in those attacks. In short, you are disingenuous in the extreme whenever you pretend to say anything balanced, because your slant shines through at all times. You simply seek to hide your past of Trump-hatred, but since you still demonstrate it in the present, the concealment isn't very effective.

Now, why you'd choose as your avatar the image of a known racist and founder of the KKK, you're long-winded profile never sufficiently explains. Oh, it goes on and on with rationalizations, but it's all rather unconvincing.

But that silliness aside, your hatred of President Trump isn't something you can hide, and your attempts to disguise it under the guise of "reasonableness" fail utterly.

You are what you are: a self-drawn caricature; concern troll; a glowing testament of how irrational hatred for one individual can consume a man and render him offensive to the community of which he portends to be a member.

If being despised as a anti-Trump propagandist, wrapped in a pretentious, self-righteous mantle of counterfeit "truth", is your goal, you have achieved it thoroughly.

To the majority of the community, you will remain exactly what you are: a Trump-hater from way back, with an utter inability to be balanced or fair. You so routinely parrot Leftist lines of attack that it serves no purpose to point it out. You simply avoid responding to any criticisms which reveal your true nature and history.

You've done it repeatedly, for instance, over the past several days by not addressing, when challenged to do so, your voluminous historical expressions of disdain for the man who is now our President—a man you have never expressed any faith in, even as he obliterated your predictions and ascended to the highest office in the world, against all odds, and against your wishes—indeed, it is you who are the fraud, con-man, and charlatan, not our President, and until you face the facts of your own despicable behavior over the last 2 years towards this flawed but decent man, the opinions of this community aren't likely to change.

You've become a sideshow...

[sargon]

Read the thread and consider whether I have done anything but quote Donald Trump in defense of Ted Cruz who was assailed as no real conservative because he criticized Trump for inciting violence and thereby allegedly siding with paid disruptors.

It is to laugh. The People evaluated both sides of this issue at the time. The Left wing interpretation (your interpretation, and Ted Cruz's) was rationally, factually, and thoroughly rejected.

And the reasons that Ted Cruz was considered "no conservative" were because (among other things):

1. He failed to show any loyalty to even his party in the aftermath of the sponsored violence that led to the cancellation of the Chicago rally, instead blaming it on Donald Trump using the flimsiest twisted logic (Leftist logic, your logic)
2. He supportable abominable so-called free trade agreements such as TPP, and the "fast track" process required to impose it on the American people.
3. He gleefully parroted the most disingenuous Leftist and Media (but I repeat myself) attacks on Donald Trump. Aside from the incident in question, there was also his shameful playing of the race card at one point, when he knew the facts to be precisely opposite.
4. He grafted the most prominent Establishment clowns, such as Neil Bush joining his finance team, and sought and received endorsements from the flower of the Establishment Enemy we were supposed to be fighting.
5. Ted Cruz sold the Revolution out to the GOPe in the most profound and direct way, because that became his only path to Executive power.
6. Ted Cruz essentially sold his soul during the electoral cycle, giving a shameful, unprecedented, divisive speech at the RNC.

Ted Cruz still has miles to go before he can redeem himself, but at least he's making an effort. The same cannot be said for you, as evidenced by your ongoing Trump-hatred.

The voters made their judgement, and in massive numbers; their behavior was a rejection of your propaganda (Leftist propaganda). Indeed, the voters repudiated Ted Cruz's false accusations (your accusations, the Left's accusations), and rendered their judgement as to whose "interpretation" of the various events in question was valid. Your smears were deemed illegitimate, and they remain so to this day.

As a result, Ted Cruz plummeted in the polls and never recovered.

You can cling to rejected and rebutted Leftist canards from here until eternity if you like. However, restating them, or insisting that they are unvarnished Truth, is laughable.

As I said, the People made their judgement, and they repudiated that of you, Ted Cruz, and the Left.

You say you quoted Donald Trump's own words. Indeed, you did—completely divorced form the context in which they were uttered.

If arriving at truth is your goal, why not analyze Donald Trump's statements in their full context? I'll tell you why not: because doing so explodes your smear for precisely that. There's nothing like omitting salient facts in order to support one's distorted view of reality.

You chose poorly. The People chose wisely, for once. The rest is history, and you can't stop living in the past—a past which you selectively twist in order to continue your hateful crusade against one Donald Trump.

Begone!