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stevenleser

(32,886 posts) Mon Mar 23, 2015, 09:34 PM Mar 2015

It's not "going down to Conservatives' level" to call them on their hypocrisy.

I'm not asserting that Cruz isn't eligible to run for President.

But I definitely will confront birther Conservatives on why they don't object to Cruz and why they aren't asking for the same level of proof of citizenship if they objected to Obama.

Just like I will question every Republican I see on why they didn't protest against Mark Sanford being elected to congress if an affair was such a terrible thing for Bill Clinton.

It's the hypocrisy.

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It's not "going down to Conservatives' level" to call them on their hypocrisy. (Original Post) stevenleser Mar 2015 OP

no questioning is needed guillaumeb Mar 2015 #1

k&r - and that applies to all conservatives, not just Republicans. nt bananas Mar 2015 #2

Republicans are pathological LIARS. Don't believe anything they say! blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #3

I will too, dammit. I'm sick of their shit. mountain grammy Mar 2015 #4

Do It Leith Mar 2015 #5

KnR. What aggravates me is that some DUers have swallowed the RW crap about who is .... Hekate Mar 2015 #6

Agreed. Calling out their hypocrisy is great. Replicating their tactics would not be. n/t pampango Mar 2015 #7

Republicans are proud shit throwers. Always have been and they don't give a shit B Calm Mar 2015 #8

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

1. no questioning is needed

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 09:46 PM

Mar 2015

Ted Cruz is white enough to be American, unlike the other guy.

The birther controversy is the post-civil rights era version of the literacy test.

bananas

(27,509 posts)

2. k&r - and that applies to all conservatives, not just Republicans. nt

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:31 PM

Mar 2015

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)

3. Republicans are pathological LIARS. Don't believe anything they say!

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 10:44 PM

Mar 2015

mountain grammy

(26,655 posts)

4. I will too, dammit. I'm sick of their shit.

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:23 AM

Mar 2015

No high road, hit them hard. Cruz does not have an American birth certificate.

Leith

(7,813 posts)

5. Do It

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:24 AM

Mar 2015

But 5 will get you ten that they won't answer. We're all sick of their hypocrisy.

Hekate

(90,829 posts)

6. KnR. What aggravates me is that some DUers have swallowed the RW crap about who is ....

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:52 AM

Mar 2015

....and who is not a citizen. The Birthers have repeated certain memes so often and for so long that they have become accepted "truth" -- to wit, that a person who is born outside the US is not a citizen even if they have one parent who is a citizen.

No no no no. Such a person IS a US citizen from birth and IS eligible to run for POTUS. Much as it grieves me to defend Cruz on this or any score, I keep reading here that Dems are supposed to call out Cruz for being ineligible.

I am only too happy to join you in calling out the hypocrisy of the GOP. The GOP is fine with Romney, McCain, and Cruz. The GOP even flirted with Ahnold Shwartzenegger, ffs, and he was not only born in Austria, so were all his ancestors. But Obama, who was born in the 50th State to a mother whose family was born in the US for many generations? Noooo.

That's the kind of thing that makes you notice all those other guys are white, but he's not.

pampango

(24,692 posts)

7. Agreed. Calling out their hypocrisy is great. Replicating their tactics would not be. n/t

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 06:24 AM

Mar 2015

B Calm

(28,762 posts)

8. Republicans are proud shit throwers. Always have been and they don't give a shit