[SoConPubbie]

He does have a point about The Civil War. Buying the slaves would have been preferable to killing 600,000 Americans. Emperor Alexander II of Russia did so in 1861.

Yes, and wouldn't it be wonderful if Adam hadn't eaten of the Tree of Life?

It would have been nice if they could have accomplished that, they couldn't. It was ingrained into the state of mind of the South.

Furthermore, it's Pauls crackpot attempt to read the mind of Lincoln, without any written evidence, that Lincoln somehow wanted to destroy or change our freedoms by going to war.

Finally, the real clue concerning the instability of Ron Paul as a conservative should be his association with the Anti-War Left and Progressives.

How anyone can hold this man up as some form of constitutional hero with all of the inconsistencies is beyond me.

[Judges Gone Wild]

The net results of The Civil War: (1) The blacks were freed from slavery, something for which they will never forgive the Republicans; (2) The suspension of the 10th Amendment; (3) The elimination of political opposition to the bankers, eventually resulting in the creation of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Income Tax (to pay for those Federal Reserve Notes).