but avoid the second one like the plague?
Is it because on the first one they were proud to call themselves "state-rights" Republicans, but the second one reminded everybody that previously it was the racist conservative Southern Dixiecrat Party who were for "state-rights"?
The northeastern RADICAL / PROGRESSIVE / LIBERAL Republican Party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nelson Rockefeller, on the other hand, used the power of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to free the slaves, protect the environment, break up monopolies, regulate big business, help the American worker, and give equal rights to minorities.
It kind of blows their "we're still the Party of Lincoln eventhough we fly the confederate flag and most of our leadership comes from the South" idea out of the water doesn't it?
2007-07-11
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