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George_Bonanza (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:30 PM Original message |
Abe Lincoln was a Republican |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. things changed yes |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yeah, but Republicans were Democrats back then! |
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JohnKleeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. thats true but the dem party changed imo |
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beanball (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Nixon and the unity party |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 07:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Interstingly, many of Lincolns ideas were socialist in nature . . . |
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xJlM (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 10:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. Yeah, right. One hundred fifty years ago... |
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Mass_Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 03:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
39. Lincoln said one of my favorite quotes ever |
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twilight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. yeah and TR was too ... |
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xJlM (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 12:32 AM Response to Reply #3 |
29. TR was a Bull Moose |
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WoodrowFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 12:44 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. he went back |
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ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
4. With Grant |
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Brucey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
5. Prolifers, too were |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 07:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Are you referring to the civil war or Native Americans? |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 08:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Most people during the Civil War |
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0rganism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 12:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
35. "The civil war obviously doesn't count"? Then Saddam's off the hook! |
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maha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 09:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
25. I remember pre-Reagan |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. Maybe it could be argued that the roots of today's Republican party... |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 07:40 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. anti Lincoln propaganda..... |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 08:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. The Movie "The Man Without a Country" |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 12:25 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. that's what i mean... |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 01:28 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Ummm -- which two cabinet members of Lincoln were shot? |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 01:34 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. You don't believe this elected leader |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 12:40 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. different situ...vastly different! |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 02:04 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Yeah Lincoln was a true representative of the people |
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pretzel4gore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 12:33 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. That's what I mean! |
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Kamika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
9. Things changed after the civil war |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 08:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Ummm - there were no Republicans in the south |
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dwckabal (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
10. The current Democratic Party |
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WoodrowFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 12:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
36. Shift to the Left |
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Sancho Panza (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. Taft and FDR |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
13. It was a gradual process actually |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-15-03 02:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
38. Don't forget the Socialists |
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coda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
16. Lincoln was about holding the Union together. Period. |
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Shanty Oilish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
17. Old school liberalism |
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birdman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. History |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
19. The Trippy part is the Republican party was the third party when Abe won |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 08:49 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. True in 1856 |
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burr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
24. Lincoln started politics as a whig, but was he really something else? |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-14-03 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
26. So were..... |
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