Has the Republic Party ever done anything to help America?

Joe the Liberal

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Wed Jan-28-09 06:55 PM
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Has the Republic Party ever done anything to help America?

Besides Lincoln has the Republic Party ever done anything positive for the US?

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FSogol

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Wed Jan-28-09 06:57 PM
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1. How about losing the last 2 elections?

I feel that should count. :rofl:

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rurallib

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Wed Jan-28-09 06:57 PM
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2. There was that Lincoln thing, but not much since that.

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baldguy

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Wed Jan-28-09 06:59 PM
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3. The Republican Party was fine up until the 1960s.

After Johnson, civil rights & the Great Society all the racist capitalist pigs got disgruntled with the Democratic Party. Nixon & the GOP welcomed them with open arms.

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The_Casual_Observer

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Wed Jan-28-09 07:00 PM
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4. only to help themselves & their friends.

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david13

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Wed Jan-28-09 07:08 PM
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5. Nixon shut down

the war in Vietnam. Johnson escalated it.
Nixon signed the Amtrak bill. And took Amtrak to New York to see the opera.
Not that I'm in love with Nixon or anything, I'm just saying.
All things are not black or white.
Nixon is a dead guy. Hardly am I gonna be in love with a dead guy.
dc

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fascisthunter

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Wed Jan-28-09 07:10 PM
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6. not that any Republicans know of

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jmowreader

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Wed Jan-28-09 07:33 PM
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7. Eisenhower pushed for the creation of the Interstate Highway System

Theodore Roosevelt got us the Pure Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act. (Roosevelt has a very long list of positive achievements--google him and see.)

Gerald Ford delayed the onset of the Reagan era by four years.

And Nixon closed down the Vietnam War.

It's pretty bad when you have to go back to the 1950s to find a Republican president with any real achievements who was a decent human being, because the last three Republican presidents surely were not.

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