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We're not talking about historical labels, Big. The Republican Party of the 1860s was not the Republican Party of today. As for the posters comparison of the modern Republican Party to the historical Know Nothings, yep -- spot on.
Since this great man has been inaugurated, Republicans have done nothing but be unreasonable in obstructing this President. What are they afraid of? Could his plans for the country be any worse than the disaster that Republicans represented for 8 horrific years of George Bush? Are they so afraid of the enormous SUCCESS that they know this man can bring, that being unreasonable, petty, trite obstructionists is the only way they can feel relevant?
Success? Apparently you and I live on a different planet. Welcome to Earth. We are friendly, but we hate economic misery.
1 To use their utmost endeavors to repeal so much of the fourteenth, and thirty second Sections of the act of Congress, entitled "an act to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas"2 Approved ... as is found in the words following, towit --
When was the Republican Party formed?
That would be 1854 in opposition to the expansion of slavery.
We're not talking about historical labels, Big. The Republican Party of the 1860s was not the Republican Party of today. As for the posters comparison of the modern Republican Party to the historical Know Nothings, yep -- spot on.
And the democratic party of the 30's to the 60's is nothing like the democratic party before the republican revolution.
I agree. The Democratic Party today is not like the FDR party of yesterday (unfortunately). And FDR's party was nothing like the party of the 1860s. Times change -- parties shift. The basic constituencies remain the same. The Republican Party is currently going from being the party of the wealthy to the party of the boob. Looks like the wealthy still have control, but the boobs are gaining on them rapidly.
That would be 1854 in opposition to the expansion of slavery.
Are you certain that the modern Republicans would be against slavery? Lincoln expanded the government and fought the Confederates which are mostly Repubs these days.
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