The greatest battle of all in defining America was the American Civil War. It basically proclaimed to the world that America should not be and will not be a country of slave drivers.
The lesser minds among us will assert that because Lincoln was a Republican, the current Republican party is heir to his heritage.
But ask yourselves this:
What candidate in the last two presidential elections did the white supremacists vote for?
Gore or Bush?
Kerry or Bush?
Today's Republican Party is heir to the trappings and robes of freedom, but not to essential principles of freedom.
The essential principles of freedom are to Republicans like sunlight is to vampires.
Simpson <2-p...@epoxy.com> wrote: > The greatest battle of all in defining America was the American Civil > War. It basically proclaimed to the world that America should not be and > will not be a country of slave drivers.
> The lesser minds among us will assert that because Lincoln was a > Republican, the current Republican party is heir to his heritage.
> But ask yourselves this:
> What candidate in the last two presidential elections did the white > supremacists vote for?
> Gore or Bush?
> Kerry or Bush?
> Today's Republican Party is heir to the trappings and robes of freedom, > but not to essential principles of freedom.
> The essential principles of freedom are to Republicans like sunlight is > to vampires.
Patriot Games wrote: > "Simpleton" <2-p...@epoxy.com> wrote in message > news:G4PWi.3554$nN3.666@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net... >> The lesser minds among us will assert that because Lincoln was a >> Republican, the current Republican party is heir to his heritage.
> A Republican freed the slaves.
> Learn to like it.
And yet over 90% of the descendants of slaves are Democrats.
In News e98Xi.2681$yV6....@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net,, Simpson at 2-p...@epoxy.com, typed this:
> Patriot Games wrote: >> "Simpleton" <2-p...@epoxy.com> wrote in message >> news:G4PWi.3554$nN3.666@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net... >>> The lesser minds among us will assert that because Lincoln was a >>> Republican, the current Republican party is heir to his heritage.
>> A Republican freed the slaves.
>> Learn to like it.
> And yet over 90% of the descendants of slaves are Democrats.
> Where did you go wrong?
What he is missing is that at the time of Lincoln, it was the Republicans that was the more "liberal" of the two parties.
-- "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take away everything you have."
> Patriot Games wrote: >> "Simpleton" <2-p...@epoxy.com> wrote in message >> news:G4PWi.3554$nN3.666@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net... >>> The lesser minds among us will assert that because Lincoln was a >>> Republican, the current Republican party is heir to his heritage. >> A Republican freed the slaves. >> Learn to like it. > And yet over 90% of the descendants of slaves are Democrats.
Actually, its 88%
> Where did you go wrong?
We didn't deport the Democrats?
We didn't repatriate the freed slaves?
We didn't train, educate or in any way transition the freed slaves to freedom and self-responsibility?
> In News e98Xi.2681$yV6....@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net,, Simpson at > 2-p...@epoxy.com, typed this: >> Patriot Games wrote: >>> "Simpleton" <2-p...@epoxy.com> wrote in message >>> news:G4PWi.3554$nN3.666@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net... >>>> The lesser minds among us will assert that because Lincoln was a >>>> Republican, the current Republican party is heir to his heritage. >>> A Republican freed the slaves. >>> Learn to like it. >> And yet over 90% of the descendants of slaves are Democrats. >> Where did you go wrong? > What he is missing is that at the time of Lincoln, it was the Republicans > that was the more "liberal" of the two parties.
Republicans have always cherished human life, freedom and liberty, more than Democrats.
Republicans freed the slaves.
Democrats enslaved them in urban ghettos and farmed them like animals for vote for decades.
> "Scruffy McScruffovitch" <Scruff...@FAM.NET> wrote in message > news:S9OdnaFqP_F7jLDanZ2dnUVZ_tqtnZ2d@comcast.com... >> In News e98Xi.2681$yV6....@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net,, Simpson at >> 2-p...@epoxy.com, typed this: >>> Patriot Games wrote: >>>> "Simpleton" <2-p...@epoxy.com> wrote in message >>>> news:G4PWi.3554$nN3.666@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net... >>>>> The lesser minds among us will assert that because Lincoln was a >>>>> Republican, the current Republican party is heir to his heritage. >>>> A Republican freed the slaves. >>>> Learn to like it. >>> And yet over 90% of the descendants of slaves are Democrats. >>> Where did you go wrong? >> What he is missing is that at the time of Lincoln, it was the >> Republicans that was the more "liberal" of the two parties.
> Republicans have always cherished human life, freedom and liberty, > more than Democrats.
Not in recent decades. You give it a lot of lip service, but when it comes to practice, the Democrats have the Republicans beat without contest.
> Republicans freed the slaves.
Because they were the more liberal of the two parties at that time.
> Democrats enslaved them
Because they were the more conservative of the two parties at that time.
-- "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take away everything you have."
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