The question was posed to freshmen Republican congressmen. Ronald Reagan was excluded to see who the new representatives liked second best.
Tables included at linked article.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
I believe the country was created to be a voluntary union of the several sovereign states. I think that Lincoln misunderstood this and used the tyrannical power of the federal government to create one centralized body which would be ruled from Washington.
I consider Lincoln to be a very bad president. He used force to impose the power of government on people who did not wish to be subject to that power. Not what this country was created for.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
I say, “No thanks.” In my opinion, we’d all be better off had there been another option, other than Lincoln. Would that he’d have stayed a grocery clerk, rather than initiating the bloodiest war in American History, and doing more to destroy the sovereignty of states, and man, than perhaps any other man in our history, with maybe the exception of Wilson, or Obama (Both are debatable). But Lincoln did his piece, for sure.
3 posted on
02/21/2011 1:06:50 PM PST by
JDW11235
(I think I got it now!)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
If I had a Wisconsin unionized teacher when I was growing up, I might have spelled "excluded" correctly in the title.
Then again, maybe not...
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Lol at democrats putting Clinton first and not even having Washington in the top 5.
8 posted on
02/21/2011 1:12:17 PM PST by
WPaCon
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Sooner or later the contingent of FR neo-Confederates will show up dissing Honest Abe....Ten...Nine...Eight...
10 posted on
02/21/2011 1:14:07 PM PST by
Emperor Palpatine
(Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Rep. Chip Cravaack (MN-8) pointed to the economic accomplishments of the Coolidge administration to explain his choice: During the Coolidge administration the federal budget shrank, the national debt was cut in half, unemployment stood at 3.6%, consumer prices rose just 0.4% and Americans personal wealth increased 17.5%, he said. Good answer!
11 posted on
02/21/2011 1:14:33 PM PST by
NeoCaveman
(Hu's your daddy?)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
On Presidents Day: Lincoln is King REALLY sad.
I wonder when they think the government bequeathed to us by Jefferson and Madison disappeared, if they think at all.
ML/NJ
16 posted on
02/21/2011 1:37:23 PM PST by
ml/nj
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Some of the same people I’ve known who despise Lincoln for keeping the country together despise people who won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance, are alarmed by the rise in illegal immigration and the idea that Mexico might try to take back some of the southwest, and consider Obama and the liberals “un-American.”
Oh, the irony...
21 posted on
02/21/2011 1:44:01 PM PST by
Darkwolf377
( Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet!Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Mm-yummy! --E. Cartman)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
My President
![](http://www.history.com/images/media/slideshow/ronald-reagan/ronald-reagan-flags.jpg)
![](http://www.upsidetrader.com/wp-content/uploads/REAGAN-2.jpg)
![](http://www.thehypertexts.com/Mysterious_Ways/Images/Ronald_Wilson_Reagan_Cowboy_Poet.gif)
![](http://www.newsalertstodays.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ronald-reagan-quote.gif)
![](http://www.chasingthewind.net/Images/reagan%20soldier%20crying.jpg)
You are missed now, more then ever.
25 posted on
02/21/2011 1:53:20 PM PST by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
If only all present “Americans really” understood the so-called civil war....
37 posted on
02/21/2011 2:46:48 PM PST by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
What's not to love?
![](http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g369/J-reb/Lost%20Cause/RockLincoln.jpg)
85 posted on
02/21/2011 8:29:19 PM PST by
rockrr
("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Best Presidents:
- Washington
- Davis
- Jefferson
105 posted on
02/24/2011 11:27:48 AM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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