IF LINCOLN WERE ALIVE TODAY, WOULD HE BE A REPUBLICAN?

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political : IF LINCOLN WERE ALIVE TODAY, WOULD HE BE A REPUBLICAN?

[+] ballot by skylab
created Tue Nov 07, 06
Lincoln said the two parties of his day and age had traded sides, and that the Republican-Democrats no longer believed that all men are created equal. Nineteenth century Democrats would join the War Democrats, who were pro-Union but against Emancipation, and the Copperheads, who were in favor of both slavery and secession. Now the two major parties have switched sides again, and now Republicans are the conservatives. So would Lincoln be a Republican now?

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Probably. He technically freed the slaves but in reality the status of most never changed. Sort of like how the republicans often treat civil rights.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Tue Nov 07, 06 3:24pm [+]

Voted : Yes
I think so, because it appears (to my untrained eye) that Republicans favor a platform of self-sufficiency (i.e. teach a man to fish), and I don't recall Lincoln as being big on social programs. I could be horribly wrong, mind you. When I was meant to be studying the Civil War back in fourth grade, I was sick a lot, missed most of that section.

by Truthseeker013 on Tue Nov 07, 06 3:48pm [+]

He wasn't a socialist, so he'd have more in common with the republicans.

by herzog on Tue Nov 07, 06 4:07pm [+]

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.

"One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards." --George W. Bush, on holding six-party talks with North Korea, Washington, D.C., Oct. 11, 2006

Unlike our CHIMP, Lincoln was clearly NOT an idiot so he wouldn't qualify to be a Republican.

by elvislennon on Tue Nov 07, 06 5:25pm [+]

modern day Republicans are in a class by themselves...so I really son't know...

by thesoothsayer on Tue Nov 07, 06 6:12pm [+]

*don't know*

by thesoothsayer on Tue Nov 07, 06 6:13pm [+]

He wasn't a racist, so he'd have more in common with the Democrats.

by cranky on Tue Nov 07, 06 6:28pm [+]

Not at gunpoint.

by Cathexis on Wed Nov 08, 06 6:58am [+]

Lincoln was a racist, but his desire for power was stronger than his desire to hold down blacks.

by thc2883 on Wed Nov 08, 06 8:59am [+]

Voted : No
It's important to note that Lincoln was the "first" Republican president. He was, imo, a visionary, and an idealist. He wouldn't belong to either party. He'd start his own; or join a third party that wasn't so "entrenched" in institutional ideologies (including, but not limited to, "political correctness") as to stop listening to new/fresh ideas from it's people. Maybe he'd get LUCKY again, who knows? But LINCOLN, as one might say, is HISTORY.

by contragrain on Mon Nov 13, 06 9:49am [+]

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