Republican Party Founded on this Day in 1854

History Channel.com ^ | 3/10/2005

[x]

Good post. Republicans should remember their honorable heritage. 19th century Republicans may not have been right about everything, but it would be wrong to forget their undoubted virtues and achievements.

Some people want to believe that if the Republicans made mistakes or fell short it vindicates the decidedly proslavery or prosegregation Democrats, but that's hardly fair or true, rather it's an indication of how hard it is to get everything "right" in politics.

Efforts to advance the cause of liberty or justice shouldn't simply be dismissed if they don't satisfy our own presumed standards. We respect the founders for going as far as they did in the right direction, in spite of their shortfalls, and the same is true of subsequent generations.

[M. Espinola]

Now that you mention it that guy does resemble Newt. lol.

Just picture those guys in an TV debate. The 5 o'clock shadow would look good, in relation to some of those schlubs back in 1860.

[kellynla]

I have serious problems with the present day GOP.

Runaway pork barrel spending(waste, fraud & abuse), deficits(balance the budget), taxes(income taxes and the IRS should be eliminated) and illegal immigration(secure the borders, fine employers who hire illegals and deport illegals) just to name a few.

I always looked forward to the day that the GOP had control of Congress and the White House with great expectations...only to be verrrrrry disappointed!

[kellynla]

definitely not an attractive bunch! LOL
of course who would have been elected had there been television two hundred years ago...
it sure nixed Nixon first time around...

[mowkeka]

God bless the GOP! The abolitionist party of Lincoln!

[M. Espinola]

Some additional GOP graphics.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Thanks for posting that information about the history of the Republican Party. I wrote it!

For more information, see http://www.republicanbasics.com and http://www.lincolnreaganfoundation.org

Cheers,

Mike

[kellynla]

Thanks for the links.

[Clemenza]

Being that you are from the old high tariff wing of the party, I was wondering if we can have your perspective on how the GOP has evolved.

[ExSoldier]

I teach in an inner city high school. I'm printing this out and will hand it out to my classes on American Government and my Sociology classes next week when we're back from Spring Break. I can't wait to see the reactions!

[kellynla]

"I'm printing this out and will hand it out to my classes on American Government and my Sociology classes next week when we're back from Spring Break. I can't wait to see the reactions!"

Excellent!

Which pieces are you printing out and what kind of reactions do you expect to get?


"I teach in an inner city high school."
Thank you for your service.

You're a better person than I.
My sister, God bless her soul, was a teacher.

I wouldn't last five minutes in a classroom teaching. LOL

[Willie Green]

Being that you are from the old high tariff wing of the party, I was wondering if we can have your perspective on how the GOP has evolved.

Click here.

[x]

True, there are problems with the party and with American politics in general now. Politicians only do the minimum to get reelected, and money talks in government louder than the public interest.

Probably we shouldn't trust parties as much as people do. Parties are more like committees organized to achieve specific purposes than churches that lay claim to the whole truth and only way to salvation. It's enough for now that one is better than the other, and it's up to us to take the next step to get them to deal with the important questions.

The more things change, though, the more they stay the same. When we see how hard it is to get things done now, and how easy it is to for parties and governments to get derailed by those who want power or favors, we can understand how hard it was for America to address slavery and other divisive questions in the past.

[SeaBiscuit]

Good things do happen, Happy Bday GOP. Aside from that, after reading the article I had a sense that History may soon repeat itself, in that the demorats seem to be doing all they can to divide America.

[Non-Sequitur]

That's because they knew that with the homosexual and racist Lincoln in the White House the tariffs would now start coming fast and furious.

ROTFLMAO

[Non-Sequitur]

Slavery would have died out by 1890 without the loss of 600,00 lives.

And you base that claim on what?

[k2blader]

Seems like it was a lot better back then.

[ExSoldier]

Which pieces are you printing out and what kind of reactions do you expect to get?

Just the main body of the article (not the FR post responses) and I expect them to be quite amazed but not surprised. They know by now how badly they've been lied to by the public school AGENDA run on them by teachers, parents, clergy you name it all in the name of party entitlements.

I had one kid who told her mom she was going to vote Republican and the parent said if she did not only would she be thrown out of the home, she'd be totally cut off from family forever. So my student just agreed with mom, apologized and voted her conscience anyway. At least that's what she told ME. Heck, I don't know if it was the truth, but I know she was pretty angry at the family.

[kellynla]

well let us know what kind of responses you get.
should be verrrrrry interesting. LOL

[newfarm4000n]

Slavery would have died out by 1890 without the loss of 600,00 lives

The most idiotic thing I have EVER heard . You do realize interracial marriages are STILL banned by the Alabama constitution ! What makes you think that the southern leaders would suddenly have become civilized on their own ? BTW the slavery amendment was only ratified by Mississippi in 1995 ! Abraham Lincoln RIP.