[mamelukesabre]

In the time of president lincoln, the democrats were the conservatives not the republicans. The republicans were the “tax and spend big government” party. So your boast of ancestors voting republican since the party’s inception is silly.

[muawiyah]

Yup, those rascally Republicans ~ always spending the people's money ~ particularly on war ~ like to free the slaves, and to free Iraq.

The Democrats were hardly Conservatives ~ they were the functional equivalent of the Nazis in their time ~ they liked slavery, like they like dependency, and abortion, and euthenasia.

The Democrats never changed.

[Biblebelter]

In the time of president lincoln, the democrats were the conservatives not the republicans. The republicans were the “tax and spend big government” party. So your boast of ancestors voting republican since the party’s inception is silly.

Silly, silly me. I forgot that anyone that felt that the Dred Scott decision in 1857 was UNCONSTITUTIONAL and political pandering was a liberal and not a conservative. After all the Democrats thought the humanity of a certain color was not really humanity, but merely a piece of property. As you inferred, it was the other party which put property before humanity and was naturally more fiscally conservative in the matters of big government. Well, I could care less what you label them, but God Almighty and history will say they were on the right side for opposing an EVIL Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision and the Roe v Wade decision because this Constitution will eventually be shown to have no more tolerance for infanticide than it had for slavery.