Why do clueless conservatives think the Republican Party was always a southern conservative party?

Question

Everytime I ask a question about liberals versus conservatives, I get a couple of idiots who seem to believe the Republican Party was always conservative.

Have you people ever heard of the term "Radical Republican" and "Southern Strategy."? The Republican Party wasn't always dominated by white conservative southerners. It used to be a great radical/progressive/liberal northeastern party.

Let me give you an example. I asked do conservatives realize how liberal America really is and then listed a number of things radicals, progressives, and liberals did for America.

Some clueless con brought PROGRESSIVE NORTHEASTERN REpublican Theodore Roosevelt, and how he fought for the environment, for worker rights, and regulation of big business.

How exactly does that make him a conservative?

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

"If that remark was original with me, I should be even more strongly denounced as a communist agitator than I shall be anyhow. It is Lincoln's. I am only quoting it; and that is one side; that is the side the capitalist should hear. Now, let the workingman hear his side."
- Theodore Roosevelt
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/31.htm

Stifle, you are no longer the progressive party anymore. The word progressive is a negative connotation in today's Republican Party. Liberal RINOs ("Republican In Name Only" according to conservatives) are actively being hunted down to extinction.

List of RINOs being targeted by conservatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only#.22Accused.22_RINOs_and_RINO_hunters

Answer 1

They were progressive Northeastern elite Republicans. That is how they started and this is where some of the great politicians came from, it was the Democrats that came from the South. It seems we all forgot about our origins.

Answer 2

"to attain passage of the degree, Democrat successor Lyndon Johnson resurrected the compromise language proposed by Republicans under Eisenhower in 1960, for this reason breaking a Southern Democratic filibuster of the civil rights invoice and allowing Johnson to sign into regulation the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the vote casting Rights Act of 1965"

Answer 3

I am glad to know that in your exalted opinion I am not clueless. What used to be is not what exists today and although I am a proponent of knowing your history it wont put food on the table. What do you propose to do to help improve the world we live in TODAY???

Answer 4

Speaking of clueless, why would a loopy liberal even imagine that he knows what Republicans are thinking when he just doesn't have the brainpower to do that?

Answer 5

We are still a progressive party.We just don't believe that gay marriage,baby killing and affirmative action (which does more harm than good) are the definition of progress.Where i come from,the barbaric action known as abortion is called regression.

Answer 6

Your point being? Okay, so you get a couple that don't read history. What about the rest, no credit for us? What about the vast majority that look at your questions and deem them unworthy of answer?

Answer 7

They were never what a liberal is today!

Answer 8

Your funny! A liberal calling others clueless ...... OTFLMAO

Answer 9

Because they are arrogant and believe that there way is the only way.