>>Kalamata wrote: “The Republicans of the pre-Civil War era were the big-government, crony-capitalist Whigs (Hamiltonians.) The name “republican” was just a meaningless name. Modern-day crony-capitalist RINO’s and Democrats are the same as 19th-century Republicans.”
>>DoodleDawg wrote: “Total lies. Republicans began as the pro-Constitution Federalists, became the anti-corruption Whigs and then anti-slavery Republicans. Republicans have always favored Founders’ original intent as opposed to numerous Democrat efforts to corrupt & debauch it.”
That is truly a bizarre statement. The Federalists party gave us the Alien and Sedition Acts, the first bank, and the doctrine of their “inspirational leader,” Alexander Hamilton, which favored the few over the many. The Whigs, followed by the misnamed “republicans”, carried that crony-capitalist doctrine forward until the party morphed into the modern day liberal democrats, causing true conservatives, like Jesse Helms, to flee the democrat party
Mr. Kalamata
I don't know how bizarre that statement is, but I'm not the one who posted it.