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To: colonel mosby
If the Republicans want to be a conservative party ... they need to re-embrace ... the presidential governing precepts of Tyler, Cleveland, Pierce, and Hayes

All but Hayes were Democrats. Tyler and Pierce were fierce proponents of the interests of the slave power. You can call this conservatism if you like, but I disagree.

22 posted on 12/25/2008 6:22:21 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Read RECARVING RUSHMORE, by Ivan Eland. He makes some very valid points, including the fact that our history books embrace “the war Presidents”, and ignore the men who have treated the Presidency as humble, and passive, caretakers.

Yet, the needless carnage, and destruction wrought by “the war Presidents”, Wilson, Lincoln, FDR, and LBJ, lasted long after each man left office.

Wilson may have been the absolute worst( read WILSON’S WAR, by Jim Powell ). But, the others were awful as well.


By the way, the Democrat Party of Tyler, Pierce, and Cleveland bore absolutely no resemblance to the Democrat Party of the late 20th, and 21st century.


24 posted on 12/25/2008 6:40:47 PM PST by colonel mosby
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