[GOPcapitalist]

You mean racist POS, don't you?

You are quite fond of branding people with that label, are you not? Bradford's books on strict constructionism are classic conservative texts. He was highly regarded in conservative circles outside of the rabid south-haters of the Lincoln cult.

[hchutch]

If one had bothered to read Frum's original article on this, one would find that Reagan, who is nobody's idea of a RINO, decided to go with Bennett over Bradford because he had no desire to re-hash old debates over the Civil War. Particularly when he had an economy to fix and the Soviet Union to defeat.