If you really wanted to extend the Lincoln comparison, you could point out that his Democrat opponents were such arrogant jerks, they continually ridiculed his lack of intelligence and compared him physically to an ape. Sound familiar? If not, put on a hazmat suit and spend a few minutes on Democrat Underground.
Caught Richard Reeves on C-SPAN today, mainly talking about his new book about President Reagan. For a liberal Democrat, Reeves was surprisingly fair-minded in his comments about Reagan, although he managed to work in some barbs directed at the current President Bush. He quoted something that read like it was a Democrat describing Reagan, which turned out to be the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger (the father of the Kennedy court historian) characterizing FDR as a charming person of limited intelligence.