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I am definitely NOT a Lincoln Republican. Aside from precipitating a civil war that resulted in the death and disfigurement of millions of American and throwing the constitution out the window when it suited him Lincoln ranks with FDR as being the president that did the most to diminish federalism, negate the 10 Amendment, and expand the power of the executive branch at the expense of the representative branches.

Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that—
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read:
Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend; and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.

T. Roosevelt and W. Wilson did infinitely for damage than Lincoln. "A New Birth of Freedom" by Harry Jaffa makes the case better than I ever could. Even so, if Lincoln harmed the Constitution he did it in defense of the much more important and fundamental Declaration of Independence.

“I am definitely NOT a Lincoln Republican. Aside from precipitating a civil war that resulted in the death and disfigurement of millions of American and throwing the constitution out the window when it suited him Lincoln ranks with FDR as being the president that did the most to diminish federalism, negate the 10 Amendment, and expand the power of the executive branch at the expense of the representative branches.”

Well said. Lincoln was the worst president, followed by FDR and LBJ (though perhaps one of the latter may well be bumped by BHO).

Aside from precipitating a civil war that resulted in the death and disfigurement of millions of American and throwing the constitution out the window when it suited him Lincoln ranks with FDR as being the president that did the most to diminish federalism, negate the 10 Amendment, and expand the power of the executive branch at the expense of the representative branches.

All by opposing an illegal Southern rebellion? Wow.

But if you would not have been Lincoln Republican if you had been alive in 1861 then would I be correct in assuming you would have been a Jeff Davis Democrat?