[billbears]

Oh heck. I like Walt. I disagree with him 100% on about everything imaginable but think who one would have to argue with about lincoln then. And that would be beyond a disaster.

Besides, worship of lincoln shows exactly how far the Republican party did go away from his dreams, how it used to stand for everything anti-lincoln in the past, and unfortunately how it seems to be turning back to the tyrant's ideals of big government. It shows us how far the party is willing to sell out to get more votes and it gives us a reminder that unless we want more of the big government programs that he instituted we need to get on the ball, and get these CINOs, that seem to be an absolute infestation since the 50s and 60s, out of the party

[dighton]

IMHO, it's significant that two who voted for keeping Walt (billbears and aomagrat) generally argue against his positions. To repeat from #97,

... you might want the opinions of WP's allies and foes on Civil War / "War of Northern Aggression" threads -- which I suspect would grow rather dull without him.