Today's Republican Party has its based in the socially conservative confederate South. The RADICAL Party of Lincoln, the PROGRESSIVE Party of Theodore Roosevelt, and the LIBERAL Party of Nelson Rockefeller (the guy who ran against conservative Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964 and actually supported civil rights), were from the NORTHEAST!
The likes of Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, National Review, and the Council of Conservative Citizens did not support civil rights in the 60s. They opposed them! It was LIBERAL groups like the ACLU and NAACP, liberal Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller, and liberal Democrats like JFK, MLK, and LBJ who supported them. It was CONSERVATIVE Republicans like Goldwater and Reagan, and CONSERVATIVE Democrats like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms (they were Dems back then) who stood against them.
Even former GOP chairman, Ken Mehlman, admitted the GOP used the racist "southern strategy" to take away the South from Dems.
2007-03-17 10:38:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It's a terminology issue.
Lincon was a Republican. The party has not actually dissolved and been reformed since them. So, by definition, it is the same party (organization).
Even if some or most of its platform and many of its goals may have changed in the interveing 150ish years.
2007-03-17 10:42:15 · answer #1 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are few similarities between the radical progressivism of Lincoln's Republican party and the Christian fundamentalist, wealth-conscious, flag-waving Republicans of today.
Goldwater should not be lumped in with people like Reagan and Thurmond. Goldwater was actually pro-choice and would today be classified as a moderate or even liberal. Goldwater conservatism is a completely different form of conservatism...one that actually involves reason, empathy, and independent thought.
Good Luck!
;o)
2007-03-17 23:58:15 · answer #2 · answered by tahunajcw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice point - Ken Mehlman had a framed photo of discgraced Alabama governor and two time GOP hopefull George Wallace on the wall of his office in the Bush Reichstag.
Our father's Dixiecrats were the foundation of the modern day GOP.
Lincoln, that poor man, rolls in his grave on a daily basis anymore.
2007-03-17 17:45:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I had no idea that Nelson Rockefeller was associated with that movement. That makes me question the true motives of that movement. The Rockefellers, like the Rothschilds, are snakes.
2007-03-17 17:42:33 · answer #4 · answered by jimmyb20032003 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not clueless! I am a conservative Republican who doesn't ally myself with Lincoln's party!
2007-03-17 17:50:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
And yet one of the leaders of the Democrats is a bonafide Klansman.. go figure.
2007-03-17 18:44:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
More like the party of Evil or the party of the Devil. The party of Satan.
2007-03-17 17:42:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
They follow their representative who speaks for them Rush Limbaugh - the pill popping - delusional - nazi that he is.
2007-03-17 17:45:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
i lay no claim to that rat, abe lincoln. john wilkes booth is my hero!
2007-03-17 17:45:26 · answer #9 · answered by patriot07 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they want to keep things simple, so their minds won't get overtaxed.
2007-03-17 17:47:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋