Posted on 03/20/2022 9:03:47 PM PDT by Conservat1
We say happy birthday to the Grand Old Party, the GOP, or, the Republican Party.
The birth of the party happened in Ripon, Wisconsin, on this day in 1854.
The new party was formed by former members of the Whig Party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories.
In my case, I became a de facto Republican after the Kennedy administration fumbled The Bay of Pigs invasion.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Indeed.
Thanks for the post!
“Since 1854, the GOP has elected many of our greatest presidents:
“Lincoln (1861-1865),
Grant (1869-1877),
Hayes (1877-1881),
Garfield (1881),
Arthur (1881-1885),
Harrison (1889-1893),
McKinley (1897-1901),
T. Roosevelt (1901-1909),
Taft (1909-1913),
Harding (1921-1923),
Coolidge (1923-1929),
Hoover (1929-1933),
Eisenhower (1953-1961),
Nixon (1969-1974),
Ford (1974-1977),
Reagan (1981-1989),
Bush, GHW (1989-1993),
Bush, GW (2001-2009) &Trump (2017-2021)””
Decades ago most “white working class or poor” were Democrats esp in the South. Sometime along the line they broke off to join GOP (dixiecrats,southern strategy all that) when Democrats started pandering to minorities in the 60s/70s
It seems like this same group feels partyless again or alienated. It’s interesting
Cheers
Geriatric Old People
Piss on them a$$holes... the GOP was non existent IMO the day they sold out the USA with NAFTA and GATT.
Yay Uniparty!
How many years have they been aligned with the DemonicRats?
Hawley attacks Ketanji Jackson on her liberalism re sex offender
Hawley:
“Do you consider sex offenders as “victims”?
Now chairman Durbin tries to make Ketanji the victim...
Now on CNN liberal Abby Phillip states that Hawley was just dog whistling to so called Q...
In any case she is heading for confirmation I majority dem. Congress.
No man. No vote.
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