Would Abraham Lincoln Be a Republican Today?

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by ParkTwain

To the OP: Yes, Lincoln would be a Republican today.

Only if you mean he would be a real Republican. He would not be of the McCain/Voinovich/DeWine(now gone, thank God)/Lindsay Graham/Trent Lott/ ... well there isn't room enough here to list them all...type.

Too many of the Republicans today are weenies, afraid to stand up to the radical leftists to stop the destruction of our country and our system of government. We never should have let these leftists return to power. We had them practically defeated for good; but the weak kneed spineless Republicans that have been in control of the Party for the last eight years or more have just handed these socialist, anti-capitalist, anti-American radicals everything they wanted on a silver platter.

I can never forgive Trent Lott for his "power sharing" giveaway several years back. Ya think the Democrats would do that? NO WAY, and I read recently that they are now going to make sure that the Republicans have little or no power whatsoever.

It's going to be tough for Republicans for a while; but they did it to themselves.

[joe501]

the thing is Lincoln was just as racist as any other white man then. He believed that blacks should be free but did not necessarily think that they were equal to him. He even stated in a debate with stephen douglas that he agreed with him (a southern democrat) in that interracial marriages between blacks and whites were wrong and strange (not that I agree with this). Just trying to say you cannot call him a democrat just because of racism. The emancipation WAS a political move that had no power until the end of the war. Think about it.