To: Michael Zak
The GOP came about as an offshoot of the abolition movement to counter the democrat party of slavery. They were not derived from the Whigs or No-Nothings as such.
2 posted on
09/16/2010 1:12:41 PM PDT by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: RJS1950
The Whigs were their evavalent of our RINOS.
3 posted on
09/16/2010 1:16:02 PM PDT by
GraceG
To: RJS1950
Indeed. I wrote a history of the Republican Party.
6 posted on
09/16/2010 3:21:19 PM PDT by
Michael Zak
(is fighting the good fight.)
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