Posted on 10/22/2017 12:09:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Dang it! Wrong Dowd. And I was so looking forward to this thread.
Martha Radass? That “objective” commentator who started to cry on-air when Trump beat the witch? What a joke.
No pictures, this is the light in the loafers propagandist for the Cheap Labor Express.
Considering Lincoln was a Psychopath that allowed 600,000 young men to die over an issue that could have been resolved without bloodshed, Yeah, I hope today’s Republicans wouldn’t want him.
As long as voters have a say in the matter, we damn well would.
And that party is gone.
I'm not sure it was entirely there when Reagan was President. The Republican Party was only slightly less vagina-ish when it came to Reagan.
Libs in Hollywood destroyed it and libs in the media destroyed politics. Anything libs touch turns to dung.
Agreed
Who ?
Idiotic. Tell us your magic solution to the Civil War that no one in the 1850s and 60s could figure out.
“Certainly wouldn’t nominate Ronald Reagan in this”
Yes, and many here can remember how the establishment press and GOPe back in 1980 thought that Jerry Ford should have been the nominee and also thought that Reagan was too right wing. These Sunday morning talkers are giant farce, big time.
Matthew Dowd longs for the days when Republicans can make believe they’re for conservative principles to their constituents and then sellout to the Deep State once they get to DC. Sorry Matt. The grassroots of this country have other plans. I know your natural inclination is to bend over so the Democrats can kick you in the ass, and then you can make nice with them so you can go to all the “awesome” DC cocktail parties as part of the establishment. What a loser!
Oh, please. The Confederate Army stopped recruiting 152 years ago. They lost, the nation stayed together and the world gained a powerful United States to keep it free from Nazism, Japan's warlords and world Communism.
Grow up.
Damn, Matthew not Maureen.
5.56mm
I totally agree, every other Western nation ended slavery without bloodshed. Only Lincoln believed it had to end NOW. Why? because he said so.
Unfortunately, I think too many Republicans would be all to eager to vote for another Teddy Kennedy and his grubby, land-grabbing fingers. More than half of the West “belongs” to the federal government thanks to Teddy even though The Constitution explicity prohibits the federal government from owning any land other than that which makes up Washington, D.C., and military installations.
The population in the 1860s was thirty million, 600,000 then is the equivalent of 3,000,000 kids being slaughtered today. 23 thousand young kids died in Gettysburg in one day or 230,000 in today’s numbers. ANY solution would have been better than Lincoln’s Blood bath.
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