To: EveningStar
There was a time when the republican party was a 3rd party.
5 posted on
02/10/2007 2:24:20 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: cripplecreek
cripplecreek wrote:
There was a time when the republican party was a 3rd party.No, the GOP never was a 3rd party.
From the moment of its foundation, it was larger than the Whig Party.
18 posted on
02/10/2007 2:30:37 PM PST by
quidnunc
(Omnis Gaul delenda est)
To: cripplecreek
Was that the "Republican party" that emerged from the demise of the Whig party, aligned with anti-slavery Democrats (1850s), or was it the "Republican party" that morphed into the Democratic party when the Federalists collapsed (1820s). The point being... I used to be two years old.
20 posted on
02/10/2007 2:31:19 PM PST by
PatrickF4
(Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. - JP II)
To: cripplecreek
There was a time when the republican party was a 3rd party.By stretching the point, this could apply to the 1856 election. However, it would be more accurate to say that there was one active party involved, the Democrats, and two half-parties, the Whigs in an advanced state of dissolution, and the Republicans just forming. There was never a time when the GOP filled the classic role of a 3rd-party against two established ones.
24 posted on
02/10/2007 2:33:33 PM PST by
Sherman Logan
(Recognition of one's ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.)
To: cripplecreek
There was a time when the republican party was a 3rd party.They are apt to become as irrelevant as a third party if they continue down the path they're on.
122 posted on
02/10/2007 3:21:43 PM PST by
c-b 1
(Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
To: cripplecreek
There was a time when the republican party was a 3rd party. Ah yes, the good old days.
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