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For years, Dan, the Republicans have been "stealing" the Democrat "heroes," particularly FDR and HST. Even Goldwater and Reagan foolishly claimed that HST was the "greatest" president of the century. Yet it was HST who so mishandled Korea that he had a 24 percent job approval rating in 1952, low enough to convince Harry that the best case scenario for him was that only a few people were even "mild about Harry." Nixon even went so far as to rate the hapless Woodrow Wilson as the "greatest" president. Never, however, did the Republicans embrace a real Democrat hero like Al Smith. And I have yet to find the Democrats promote any Republican "heroes," other than Lincoln. In fact, most Democrats today will you tell you point-blank that Lincoln was a Democrat. They could have been absent the day the teacher taught that Lincoln was the first elected Republican president. Of course, in today's PC curriculum "it" may not "say" that Lincoln was a Republican!

>> I have yet to find the Democrats promote any Republican "heroes," other than Lincoln. In fact, most Democrats today will you tell you point-blank that Lincoln was a Democrat. They could have been absent the day the teacher taught that Lincoln was the first elected Republican president. Of course, in today's PC curriculum "it" may not "say" that Lincoln was a Republican! <<

So tell me, if FDR was the second coming of Lincoln, why did the "conservative" southern states overwheming vote AGAINST Lincoln but then vote overwhemingly FOR Roosevelt? Does that sound consistant?

This article just proves the bulls--t you hear on this forum everyday that "the Democrats were the conservative party until Johnson took over in the 60s and then the south switched parties...blah blah blah"