[JohnGalt]

Karl Marx and Hitler were very fond of Lincoln.

Hitler praised Lincoln's consolidationist policy in Mein Kampf and Karl wrote a nice note to Lincoln in 1863.

Whose side are you on?

[Restorer]

Whether Karl and Adolph approved of some of Lincoln's actions is comprehensively irrelevant. Classic ineffective guilt by association.

What would be relevant is if Lincoln approved of them.

[BlackElk]

Excuuuuuuse me! Karl Marx wrote and published an entire book of dispatches as a London Times reporter on the Civil War. He praised he Confederate leadership (I hate to admit this as an unreconstructed admirer of the South, Jeff Davis, Marse Robert and above all, Stonewall Jackson, but not of slavery) and profusely attacked Lincoln as a rural buffoon with the manners and grace of an orangutan (coming from the, ummmm, eccentric Marx, this was truly remarkable as an attack).

Hitler may well have wrote as you say.

Those who are the conservatives are on the conservative side, by definition. Anyone familiar with "paleocons" knows that they are not. The neocons, a group of eightyish old former liberals are 2/3 of the time on the conservative side and retain a bit of their old liberal views on economics. The title of Irving Kristol's book: Two Cheers for Capitalism about sums up their position.