Where did the Republicans go?

[mac2]

I was watching a movie about Lincoln tonight. The Lincoln/Douglas debate was part of the movie. As I listened, I thought how both debators represented extreme views of politics today. Lincoln was Republican but his views (in that speech) would be considered Democratic now. Doughlas was ?...but represents view of RW Republicans now.

The speech that I refer to is this one link: http://www.nps.gov/liho/debate7.htm It was the seventh and last debate that talks about slavery, the courts, etc. Hollywood shortened of-course.

If you get a chance to read or hear the debate around Lincoln's birthday do so.

Lincoln took power when the country was going to war. He wanted to keep the union together. He stated that, the union was formed because of an ideal...freedom and liberty for all.

The book called Lincoln by Gore Vidal is excellant.

[randr]

1. Your not the only one to ask that question today.

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/02/far04003.html

[Chicago Democrat]

2. Republicans used to be nicer

Good Republicans: Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dewey, Eisenhower, Goldwater, Dole, Bush I

Republicans, occasionally brilliant, mostly bad: McKinley, Hoover, Coolidge, Nixon, Reagan, WF Buckley, POwell

Truly Evil Republicans, lying swine: Nixon, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bush II, Kissinger, Olly North, Rice, Powell Jr.

[Chicago Democrat]

3. Things got worse after Nixon

Then really bad in the 80s, and now we much endure the goons of the right again. With luck, only for another year!

[theorist]

4. Lincoln was anti-slavery, not a stone cold Republican.

The Dems of the South would never have supported an abolitionist.

[mac2]

7. The south.....

Some switch eh?

The Republicans who wanted small government...are supporting a World Order President. World Order...it can't get any bigger than that and without their local or state representation!!!

A religious group support a President who thinks bombing two countries pre-emptively is OK because he got ....one man...Suddam. Think of the destruction of those societies. He didn't even apologize. They think it is worth it. Why? They made a bundle and their agenda to take away our freedoms and way of life. Hey wasn't that what Bin Laden did to us?

I want them tried in court and their money frozen until we can recover it from Halliburton, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, etc. The whole lot of them..their money frozen like any RICO case of Taliban terrorists. They are American Taliban don't you think? Where is the Republican outrage over this?

[Kazak]

5. Yeesh...

What the hell did happen to those freaks?

[Chicago Democrat]

6. They were all beaten as children

or some such trama.

[Beam Me Up]

8. I sometimes wonder about that myself

the way abused children--and adults too, for that matter--sometimes identify so much with their abusers that they co-them and protect them. What's that all about?