too afraid to hitch their conestoga wagons and head out west in that big scary world?
2007-07-26 14:10:45 · 13 answers · asked by HillBillieNot 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Actually in the early part of this country there was only one political party and that was the Democratic-Republicans. The Whigs didn't show up until Jackson and the Republican party was formed in 1854 as a progressive party.
2007-07-26 18:48:31 · answer #1 · answered by cynical 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the expansion you libs have criticized and demeaned as western imperialism, you so despise? I think they were neither Republicans nor Democrats. Just people looking for a better and free life without tyranny.
2007-07-26 21:26:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me get this straight..............liberals accuse republicans of an unjust war by INVADING IRAQ, yet you believe that if republicans were running the 13 colonies that they wouldn't have INVADED the rest of North America? C'mon. If you want to make fun of republicans then go ahead. But don't call them war mongers one day, and then claim they'd be too afraid for westward expansion the next!
2007-07-26 21:18:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Given the fact that most US western states (west of the Mississippi) are Red, as their ancestors were, I'd say most of the American settlers who settled the western US were Republicans.
2007-07-26 21:23:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that's fair. Our founding fathers would be considered traditional Republicans.
It's the neocons who use FEAR as a tool of choice.
2007-07-26 21:20:19 · answer #5 · answered by wyllow 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And the "War on terror is just a bumper sticker" stance is so much better.
edit: If the colonies had been like the liberals of today they'd be yelling "No War for Tea! No War for Tea"!
2007-07-26 21:15:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They are not afraid themselves -- they use fear as a tool to achieve their political agendas.
THEY (for purposes of this answer) = "current Republican party leadership", not the entire Republican party as a whole.
2007-07-26 21:14:58 · answer #7 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I thought you far left loonies saw the pioneers as "racist warmongering neocons"! Hmmmmm!
2007-07-26 21:14:53 · answer #8 · answered by American Man 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, in fact we would still be part of England.
Republicans hate and fear freedom and believe that
2007-07-26 21:15:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Maybe they would want to get away
2007-07-26 21:14:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋