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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Watch out for liberals trying to steal a Republican Hero

He was a hero only after winning the Civil War. Before that the Republicans had dumped him for the 1864 election.

24 posted on 09/25/2007 8:54:37 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62
Lincoln’s vulnerability in 1864 is a lesson of the danger of political shortsightedness in opposition to staying the course. If Sherman had not been so proficient in his Georgia campaigns there was even a danger that the Democrat McClellan might even had been elected in 1864.
40 posted on 09/25/2007 9:09:36 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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