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No. You didn't get invaded last time, either. We did. So never fear, G, the only invasion you need worry about in your neck of the woods has already happened. You've been infested with left-wing, Communistic/Socialist/Fascist elements which have turned the people of the north in large numbers to their side which is why your states are usually in the Dem electoral category these days. That's the invasion you need to worry about, and it's already been done and been successful.

As for us, Deo Vindice!

Why so many Bush/Lincoln comparison's lately?

It's symptomatic a conscious attempt by the Claremont wing of the GOP to reshape the party in a new direction. From 1964 to 2000 the Republican Party was fundamentally a Goldwater mechanism. Its anchor was in the south and the great plains and its politics were built upon liberty-minded conservatism (or small L fiscal libertarianism combined with moral conservatism).

From 2000 on the Claremont types of this world have been trying to change the GOP from the "Party of Goldwater" into th "Party of Lincoln." They do so because they've caught the big government bug - they've tasted the power of the state now that we're in control and they like that power so they try to find a way to justify it remaining in their hands. Since that vision is incompatable with the anti-government Goldwater philosophy Goldwater gets shunned. They cast out in search of a replacement - an ideological hero who is compatable with big government - and in doing so they find themselves at the alter of Saint Abe.

As an added bonus - even though we know that the real Saint Abe was an unmitigated flaming bigot, the mythical Saint Abe is not. The mythical Saint Abe is a paragon of "tolerance" and and all the other liberal PC buzz words that are popular these days - a true diversitopian. The same GOP forces who wish to shun Goldwater have also caught that same PC bug from the leftist big government types via the "lie down with dogs, get up with fleas" method. So they promote an agenda of affirmative action-lite, ramadama-ding-dong "religion of peace" catering, kwanzaa-embracing, "civil unions" as an alternative to homo marriage-touting, PC garbage because they think they can get some sort of mythical nonexistant voting advantage from it.

There's a fork in the path of the Republican Party of today. One is the limited government Goldwater route. The other is the big government Lincoln route and we're starting to veer that way, which is inescapably the wrong direction.