[Paul C. Jesup]

This litmus test is a trick question.

Today's Republicans are Reagan's Conservative Republicans, NOT Lincoln's Radical Republicans.

[quidnunc]

Paul C. Jesup wrote: This litmus test is a trick question. Today's Republicans are Reagan's Conservative Republicans, NOT Lincoln's Radical Republicans.

Many, if not most, of the paleocons are synpathetic to the Confederacy and believe the South's cause during the Civil War was just, so it's a given that Honest Abe occupies a place in their pantheon of horribles.

[Gianni]

Today's Republicans are Reagan's Conservative Republicans, NOT Lincoln's Radical Republicans.

KaBOOM! Those who claim the two are somehow ideologically related are, well, all wet.

[philosofy123]

I rather call myself a Nixonian Republican.